62 items in this album on 4 pages.
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20mm Oerlikon position aboard USS New Jersey, Pacific Ocean, 21 Jul 1943 | USS New Jersey at sea, Pacific Ocean, 21 Jul 1943 | USS New Jersey at sea, Pacific Ocean, 21 Jul 1943 | United States Navy sub chaser SC-1075 on the Delaware River, 9 Aug 1943. Note Mousetrap anti-submarine rocket rails on the foredeck, 20mm Oerlikon ant-aircraft guns, and side-dropping depth charge racks. |
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LCVP landing craft circling off Cape Torokina, Bougainville, Solomon Islands while awaiting orders, 1 Nov 1943; note 20mm Oerlikon AA gun; photographed from aboard APA-13 USS American Legion | 20 mm Oerlikon cannon aboard USS Tang, 1940s | Men and vehicles aboard USS LCT-535, 1944 | Scene aboard USS New Jersey, date unknown |
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Scene aboard USS New Jersey, date unknown | Scene aboard USS New Jersey, date unknown | View of USS New Jersey from the bow looking astern, date unknown | USS South Dakota, USS Alabama, and USS North Carolina underway in the South Pacific, 25 Jan 1944; photo taken from USS Intrepid |
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The helm of PT-295, a Higgins 78-foot motor torpedo boat, 1944. Note the mast in the lowered position, two twin Browning .50 caliber machine gun mounts, and a 20mm Oerlikon gun forward. | A Roman Catholic chaplain performing mass on the deck of USS Iowa as they closed on the Mariana Islands, Jun 1944. Note the colors of the ship’s paint and the 40mm and 20mm anti-aircraft mounts. | Canadian personnel man a portable Triple Polsten 20mm anti-aircraft mount, a descendant of the Oerlikon design. France, Jun 1944. | US Coast Guardsmen John Smith, African-American on left, and Daniel Kaczorowski, on right, manning a 20-mm Oerlikon autocannon aboard a landing craft, circa mid- or late-1944 off France |
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Columns of troop-packed American LCI landing craft in the wake of a USCG-manned LST en route to Cape Sansapor, New Guinea, mid-1944 | US Navy African-American Miles Davis King carrying a loaded magazine for a 20-mm gun aboard CVE USS Tulagi en route to France, Aug 1944 | Sailor standing watch at a 40mm Bofors gun mount aboard USS Hornet (Essex-class), 1944 | Elco 80-foot PT-523 alongside escort carrier USS Manila Bay returning downed pilot and aircrewman east of Leyte Gulf, 22 Oct 1944. Note the aircraft style National insignia on top of the chart house. |
62 items in this album on 4 pages.