314 items in this album on 16 pages.
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PT-628, a 78-foot Higgins boat, during testing on Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana, United States, Jan 1945. | PT-245, a Higgins 78-footer of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 20 (MTBRon 20), southwest Pacific, circa 1945. | PT-330, an Elco 80-footer of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 21 (MTBRon 21), underway in the Philippines, circa 1945. Note the smoke generator canister on the stern. | PT-331, an Elco 80-footer of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 21 (MTBRon 21), in Leyte Gulf, 1945. Note shell splashes in the distance. |
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Essex-class carrier USS Bon Homme Richard cruising in the Gulf of Paria between Trinidad and Venezuela on her shakedown cruise, 7 Feb 1945. Note TBM Avenger on her deck and Coast Guard guard boat alongside | Landing craft forming up boat waves in preparation for the initial landings on Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945 | A Mark XIII aerial torpedo with wooden shroud rings fore and aft being loaded from a boat into the starboard bomb bay (in the engine nacelle) of a PBM Mariner patrol aircraft, probably 1945 in the Pacific. | LST-1041 loaded with Higgins 78-foot PT-Boats (PT-626, PT-627, PT-628, & PT-634) in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, Mar 1945. These boats were taken to Puget Sound where they were transferred to the USSR |
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Patrol Boat No. 102, Kure, Japan, 12 Mar 1945 | Dempsey crossing the Rhine River into Germany aboard a small boat, 24-25 Mar 1945 | LCVP Higgins Boat from Amphibious Transport Ship USS Darke transferring US Army reinforcements at Okinawa, Japan, mid-April 1945 | Destroyer HMS Malcolm approaching German submarine U-541 after the U-Boat surrendered pursuant to Germany’s surrender terms, 11 May 1945 off Portugal, photographed from a PBY from VPB-63. |
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US Navy tug boat YTM 466 at the Mine Warfare School, Yorktown, Virginia, United States, 17 May 1945; the boat's crewmen were all African-American | A captured Japanese Shinyo-class suicide boat being hoisted off of USS Pinkney after being brought to the United States for analysis, Alameda, California, United States, Jun 1945. | A captured Japanese Shinyo-class suicide boat on the dock after being hoisted off USS Pinkney that brought it to the United States for analysis, Alameda, California, United States, Jun 1945. | PT-601 “Termites Delight,” an Elco 80-footer that later served with Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 41 (MTBRon 41), is seen here on a shakedown run off Bayonne, New Jersey, United States during Jun 1945. |
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Shinyo special attack boats at Corregidor, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 1945 | PT-490, an 80-foot Elco motor torpedo boat with MTB Squadron 33, transporting General Douglas MacArthur, Lieutenant General Robert Eichelberger, and staff from Iloilo on Panay to Bacolod on Negros in the Philippines, 7 Jun 1945. | Elco 80-foot torpedo boats of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 24 (MTBRon 24) at the forward base in the southwest Pacific, mid-to-late 1945. | Wang Yaowu, Lu Han, Zhang Fakui, He Yingqin, Tang Enbo, Du Yuming, Xiao Yisu, and Haydon Boatner after the surrender ceremony in Zhijiang, Hunan Province, China, 21 Aug 1945 |
314 items in this album on 16 pages.