Photos of World War II Ships | World War II Database

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F6F Hellcat fighter landing on USS Hancock, circa 1944; note Hancock's camouflage Measure 32, Design 3a	Fire Controlman First Class E.M. Smith, gun captain of one of the USS Missouri’s nine 16-inch main guns, opens the gun’s highly polished breech plug during the ship’s shakedown cruise to Trinidad, Aug 1944.	Missouri firing full salvo from both forward 16-inch gun turrets during shakedown exercise, Aug 1944; note six super-sonic projectiles at upper right; as seen on page 23 of US Navy War Photographs	Missouri's 40mm quad anti-aircraft machine crew at battle stations atop turret number two during her shakedown, Aug 1944; Alaska in background

Navy Chaplain Lt Rival Hawkins conducting Sunday services on the USS Missouri’s fantail during the ship’s shakedown cruise in the Trinidad area, Aug 1944. The censored ship at right is the USS Alaska.	President Franklin Roosevelt’s dog Fala on the deck of the destroyer USS Cummings as the ship transported the President through Alaska’s Inside Passage, Aug 1944.	PT-396, an American built British Vosper design 70-foot motor torpedo boat during builder trials off New York, Aug 1944. Note that the censors scratched out the radar atop the mast.	SJ radar aboard USS Pogy, Aug 1944

Submarine UIT-24 in the Inland Sea, Japan, Aug 1944	US Army CCKW 2 1/2-ton 6x6 cargo trucks bringing supplies to US Navy LSTs, Naples, Italy in preparation for the invasion of southern France, Aug 1944	USS Bailey following a period of tender repairs in Purvis Bay, Florida Island, Solomon Islands, Aug 1944. Note Bailey’s new Measure 31, Design 6D paint scheme. Photo 1 of 2.	USS Bailey following a period of tender repairs in Purvis Bay, Florida Island, Solomon Islands, Aug 1944. Note Bailey’s new Measure 31, Design 6D paint scheme. Photo 2 of 2.

USS Intrepid moored behind USS Enterprise at Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, Territory of Hawaii, Aug 1944	USS Kete underway in Lake Michigan, United States, Aug 1944	USS Kete, circa mid-1944	USS St. Louis at Guam, Mariana Islands painted in Measure 32, Design 2C “Dazzle” paint, 1944.

Victory-ship Nicaragua Victory on Shipway 5 at Shipyard No. 1 at the Kaiser Richmond Shipyards, Richmond, California, United States, Aug 1944.	Vought OS2U Kingfisher floatplane being hoisted aboard the battleship USS Missouri during her Atlantic shakedown cruise, Aug 1944.	Battleship USS Missouri in Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, United States during shakedown exercises, 1 Aug 1944. Note her fresh coat of paint in the Measure 32, Design 22D scheme.	Franklin in the Mariana Islands, 1 Aug 1944; photograph taken from carrier Hornet