World War II Photograph Search [boat]

308 items in this album on 16 pages.


PT-331, an Elco 80-footer of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 21 (MTBRon 21), in Leyte Gulf, 1945. Note shell splashes in the distance.	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	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.	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.	Shinyo special attack boats at Corregidor, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 1945	PT-490, an 80-foot Elco motor torpedo boat with MTB Squadron 33, transporting Gen Douglas MacArthur, LGen 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.

A Japanese harbor pilot being taken aboard USS Missouri from USS Nicholas in a boatswain's chair, 27 Aug 1945	A Japanese officer being transported aboard USS Missouri in a boatswain's chair, 27 Aug 1945	Japanese destroyer Hatsuzakura off Tokyo Bay with a whaleboat from USS Nicholas alongside to transfer Japanese translators and harbor pilots to Nicholas, 27 Aug 1945. Photo 1 of 2.	Japanese destroyer Hatsuzakura off Tokyo Bay with a whaleboat from USS Nicholas alongside to transfer Japanese translators and harbor pilots to Nicholas, 27 Aug 1945. Photo 2 of 2.