Photos Taken in Pacific Ocean | World War II Database

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Ordnancemen aboard USS Hancock loading 5-inch HVAR rockets onto the wings of F4U Corsairs before taking off for a strike on Kyushu, Japan, 21 Mar 1945. Photo 2 of 2.	Tailhook of an F4U Corsair from Fighting Squadron VBF-6 hooking an arresting cable aboard USS Hancock off Okinawa, Japan, 21 Mar 1945. Note aircraft tractor tug in the foreground.	Eastern Aircraft FM2 Wildcats of Composite Squadron VC-93 on the flight deck of escort carrier USS Petrof Bay off Okinawa, 25 Mar 1945.	Crewmen hoisting one of USS Miami's paravanes while in the Pacific Ocean, 26 Mar 1945

USS Hornet in camouflage Measure 33 Design 3a off Okinawa, Japan, 27 Mar 1945; note various aircraft on the flight deck	A TBM Avenger trailing smoke returning to the carrier USS Essex after being damaged by Japanese anti-aircraft fire during a strike on Minami Daito Jima in the Okinawa Operation, 28 Mar 1945.	Destroyer USS Kimberly in Measure 32/6D paint scheme seen from an LST south of Okinawa, Japan, 29-31 Mar 1945.	F4U Corsair at the barrier wires after landing aboard USS Bennington around Okinawa in the Western Pacific, Apr 1945.

F4U Corsair preparing for a deck launch from USS Bennington around Okinawa in the Western Pacific, Apr 1945. Note the arrowhead geometrics that identify the plane as coming from the Bennington.	Fletcher-class destroyer USS Harrison steaming alongside carrier USS Bennington as Bennington’s TBM Avengers run up their engines, early 1945 in the Western Pacific.	Vought F4U-1D Corsair of Marine Fighting Squadron VMF-451 ‘Blue Devils’ with its wings folded aboard USS Bunker Hill, south of Japan, spring 1945. Note the armorers readying the HVAR rockets and the rocket rack at right	F4U Corsairs and TBM Avengers of Air Group 6 aboard USS Hancock off Okinawa, Japan, 2 Apr 1945

A Japanese special attack aircraft exploding on the deck of USS Hancock off Okinawa, Japan, 7 Apr 1945	A mushroom cloud hanging above battleship Yamato's exploding hull, 7 Apr 1945	Battleship Yamato under aerial attack in the East China Sea, 7 Apr 1945	Cruiser Yahagi listing heavily to port, East China Sea, 7 Apr 1945 at 1345 hours; note four American aircraft in flight on the left side of the photograph

Explosion aboard the Yamato as she was sunk on 7 Apr 1945	USS Hancock burning after being struck by a kamikaze special attack aircraft off Okinawa, 7 Apr 1945. Note fires burning fore and aft, and TBM Avenger flying over the carrier. Photographed from USS Pasadena.	USS Hancock maneuvering to control fires after being hit by a Japanese special attack aircraft off Okinawa, Japan, 7 Apr 1945	Yahagi being straddled by near misses, East China Sea, 7 April 1945