Photos Taken in Pacific Ocean | World War II Database

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USS Shangri-La underway, Pacific Ocean, Jan-Jun 1956; seen in US Navy publication Air Task Group 3 1956 cruise book	USS Shangri-La launching F9F-8 Cougar aircraft of VF-53 squadron, Pacific Ocean, 10 Jan 1956	Chiang Kaishek inspecting the US Marines detachment of USS Midway, in the Taiwan Strait off Kinmen (Quemoy) island, Fujian Province, Republic of China, 1958; note US Navy Pacific Fleet commander Admiral Herbert Hopwood	Destroyer USS Nicholas alongside Essex-class carrier USS Philippine Sea in the western Pacific, 1958. Note the carrier’s 5-inch/38 and 40mm Bofors guns.

After the hulk of the submarine Tinosa was used as a target ship, it was scuttled off Hawaii in Nov 1960.	Marcel le Bihan with submarine Archimède (background) over the Kuril Trench in the Pacific Ocean, 1962	Destroyer USS Nicholas at sea, Jun 1964. Note that her No. 2 gun mount now holds a RUR-4 ahead-throwing anti-submarine rocket launcher.	Carrier USS Hornet (Essex-class) and the destroyer USS Nicholas during underway replenishment from the fleet oiler USS Cimarron off the coast of North Vietnam, circa 1966.

USS Bennington recovering the Apollo 4 capsule in the Central Pacific, 9 Nov 1967.	USS Nicholas (near) and USS O’Bannon (far) guiding carrier USS Enterprise (Enterprise-class) in the Gulf of Tonkin, South China Sea, 6 Mar 1968.	Battleship New Jersey underway for Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, United States, 9 Sep 1968	2015 computer enhanced sonar image of the sunken USS Independence in 2,600 feet of water off Half Moon Bay, California. Note that the colors are to better show the features and are not the true colors of the wreck.

Bow section of the USS Johnston discovered in 21,180 feet of water off Samar in late Mar 2021 and is believed to be the world’s deepest known shipwreck. The wreck was originally discovered in 2019 by the late Paul Allen’s team.