World War II Photograph Search [oat]

500 items in this album on 25 pages.


Floating crane YD-82 at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 1943-44 (Berth B-25, Merry Loch). Note the harbor ferry Nihoa at right with a load of sailors in liberty whites. Note also fleet headquarters building in camouflage paint.	H6K flying boat burning in the water, 1944	PT-183 and PT-180, Elco 80-footers of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 11 (MTBRon 11) at the Rendova PT Boat base on Lumbari Island in the Solomon Islands, 1944	Quarter deck of sloop HMS Hind, 1944, with depth charge launchers along both rails and a depth charge rack at the stern. Note also the acoustic torpedo countermeasure Foxer noisemaker float atop the rack.

Sherman Duplex Drive tank with waterproof float screen, date unknown	Vought OS2U Kingfisher float plane being recovered aboard battleship USS New Jersey, location unknown, 1944	Lieutenant John F. Kennedy after his assignments on PT Boats and his return to the United States, Jan 1944. Note the amblyopia in his right eye that prevented him from being a pilot like his brother, Joe.	A rocket attack on the German Type VIIC Submarine U-758 by TBF Avengers from USS Block Island northeast of the Azores, 11 Jan 1944. Note two rockets hitting just astern of the U-Boat. U-758 was damaged but not sunk.

Cruiser USS Cleveland in floating drydock ABSD-1 at Pallikulo Bay, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, 13 Jan 1944. Cleveland was the first warship to enter ABSD-1.	Biscayne as the flagship of the of the Anzio, Italy landings, 21-22 Jan 1944; note PT boat alongside	USS S-43 at the Bethlehem shipyard in San Francisco, California, United States, 26 Jan 1944; note floating dry dock at the opposite pier	US reconnaissance photo of the Japanese seaplane base at Kavieng Harbor, New Ireland, 15 Feb 1944; note Mitsubishi F1M2 Float Planes, US code named 'Pete'

Japanese naval base, warships, and fishing boats at Dublon Island under American aerial attack, Truk Atoll, Caroline Islands, 16 Feb 1944, photo 1 of 2	Japanese naval base, warships, and fishing boats at Dublon Island under American aerial attack, Truk Atoll, Caroline Islands, 16 Feb 1944, photo 2 of 2	Japanese ships and fishing boats under attack at Dublon Island, Truk Atoll, Caroline Islands, 16 Feb 1944	WW2-era recognition drawing of SOC Seagull floatplane by Air Intelligence Group, US Navy Technical Air Intelligence Section, 16 Feb 1944

PT-215, a Higgins 78-footer of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 15 (MTBRon 15), tied up in Blue Grotto, Capri, Italy in Mar 1944.	PT-434, an American built British Vosper design 70-foot motor torpedo boat shortly after completion at the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company in Bristol, Rhode Island, United States, Mar 1944.	AGP Oyster Bay tending PT boats in Seeadler Harbor, Admiralty Islands, 25 Mar 1944	Launching of submarine Caiman, Electric Boat Company, Groton, Connecticut, United States, 30 Mar 1944