Photos Taken in California | World War II Database

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Escort carrier USS Altamaha transporting a deck load of P-51A Mustang fighters has just left Alameda, passed under the San Francisco Bay Bridge (background) and steams toward the Golden Gate, 16 Jul 1943	USS Wahoo at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States, 16 Jul 1943, photo 1 of 2	USS Wahoo at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States, 16 Jul 1943, photo 2 of 2	View of USS Wahoo's bridge from above while at Mare Island Navy Yard in Vallejo, California, United States, 20 Jul 1943, photo 1 of 2

View of USS Wahoo's bridge from above while at Mare Island Navy Yard in Vallejo, California, United States, 20 Jul 1943, photo 2 of 2	Lunch time at the Vega aircraft plant, Burbank, California, United States, Aug 1943; 2,750 B-17 Flying Fortress bombers were built by Vega during WW2	Two female workers in the nose section of a PV-1 aircraft, Lockheed factory, Burbank, California, United States, Aug 1943	Worker scraping a plaster cast for plexiglass for PV-1 turrets, Lockheed factory, Burbank, California, United States, Aug 1943

Workers checking a newly completed PV-1 aircraft, Lockheed factory, Burbank, California, United States, Aug 1943	USS Hoel in San Francisco Bay, California, United States, 3 Aug 1943. Note the depth charge racks on the stern as well as depth charge launchers along the rail abreast the No. 3 and No. 4 gun turrets.	Cruiser USS Nashville off Mare Island, California, United States, 4 Aug 1943. Note her Measure 21 paint scheme which is all-over sea blue.	USS Hoel underway in San Francisco Bay, California, United States, 7 Aug 1943 with the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in the background.

Launching of Tang, Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States, 17 Aug 1943	Launching party of Tang, Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States, 17 Aug 1943	Mrs Cecily Olsen and Mrs A S Pitre at the launching of Tang, Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States, 17 Aug 1943, as printed in 20 Aug 1943 edition of shipyard newspaper Grapevine	Tang immediately after launch, Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States, 17 Aug 1943

Mare Island photo of bow damage to USS St. Louis after a torpedo hit in the Battle of Kolombangara, 13 Jul 1943, although this photo was taken on 19 Aug 1943. Note the offset from center of 12ft 7in. Photo 1 of 2.	Mare Island photo of bow damage to USS St. Louis after a torpedo hit in the Battle of Kolombangara, 13 Jul 1943, although this photo was taken on 19 Aug 1943. Note the offset from center of 12ft 7in. Photo 2 of 2.	Submarine Tang at Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, California, United States, circa late Aug 1943	Honorary welders C. R. Campbell and Georg Lyon at the keel laying of submarine Spot, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States, 24 Aug 1943