Mid-WW2 Photos | World War II Database

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US Army Air Corps OA-10 Catalina aircraft and its crew, date unknown	US Navy K-class airship of Airship Patrol Squadron ZP-14 at NAS Weeksville, North Carolina, United States, 1943-44.	US Navy K-class airship of Airship Patrol Squadron ZP-33 at NAS Tillamook, Oregon, United States, 1943-44.	US Navy sailors attach Mk 47 aerial depth charges to the underside of a K-class blimp control car at NAS Weeksville, North Carolina, United States, 1943-44.

USS Alabama firing in exercise somewhere in the South Pacific, Oct 1943; note secondary 5-inch/38-caliber guns of USS South Dakota in foreground	USS Gunnel underway off Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States, Oct 1943	USS Mobile preparing to launch a Vought OS2U Kingfisher floatplane from her port catapult during the Oct 1943 Marcus Island raid. Note the 40mm twin gun mount and man in the gun tub holding a red flag.	USS New Mexico, probably at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, late 1943

USS Yorktown (Essex-class) as seen from the fantail of Light Cruiser USS Mobile, during the October 1943 raid on Marcus Island. Note OS2U Kingfisher scout planes on Mobile’s two catapults.	Vella Lavella of the Solomon Islands, seen from an American ship, circa late 1943	Vice Minister of Munitions Nobusuke Kishi and Prime Minister Hideki Tojo, Japan, Oct 1943	War correspondent Quentin Reynolds and Vice Admiral H. Kent Hewitt aboard USS Ancon, mid- or late-1943

WASP pilots preparing to ferry A-25A Shrike aircraft, Aug-Dec 1943; note veteran WASP pilot Dora Dougherty at top	Wrecked Me 323D-2 aircarft at Castlevetrano, Sicily, Italy, mid- or late-1943	X-10 Graphic Reactor, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States, Oct 1943	Lt Gen Edmund Herring, Lt Col J. A. Bishop, Maj Gen G. A. Vasey, and Lt Gen Leslie Morshead at Ramu Valley, New Guinea, 1 Oct 1943

The new bow section of the cruiser USS St. Louis, 1 Oct 1943, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States. The white lines mark the areas of new construction. Photo 1 of 2.	The new bow section of the cruiser USS St. Louis, 1 Oct 1943, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States. The white lines mark the areas of new construction. Photo 2 of 2.	Troops of the British Army 1/6th Queen's Regiment riding on a Sherman tank of the British Army Royal Scots Greys regiment, Torre Annunciata, Italy, 1 Oct 1943	Heavy cruiser USS Chester emerging from Mare Island Naval Shipyard in California 2 Oct 1943 after repairs due to torpedo damage.