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USS New Jersey at sea, Pacific Ocean, 21 Jul 1943 | USS New Jersey at sea, Pacific Ocean, 21 Jul 1943 | Heavy cruiser USS Chester shifting berths at Norfolk Navy Yard just after being floated out of drydock, 23 Jul 1943 | USS New Jersey entering the deperming slip at Lambert’s Point on the Elizabeth River, Norfolk, Virginia at about 11:00 AM local time, 23 Jul 1943. |
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Aviation Machinist's Mate John Anderson supervised WAVES Seamen 1st Class Inez Waits and Lucille H. Henderson, Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Florida, United States, 24 Jul 1943 | Captain Carl Holden at an award ceremony aboard USS New Jersey, 24 Jul 1943, photo 1 of 2 | Captain Carl Holden at an award ceremony aboard USS New Jersey, 24 Jul 1943, photo 2 of 2 | Launching ceremony of submarine Parche, Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine, United States, 24 Jul 1943 |
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WAVES Airman 1st Class (Aviation Metalsmith) Barbara Stroud drilling and riveting aircraft structure in the Assembly and Repair Department at Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Florida, United States, 2 | WAVES Aviation Machinist's Mates working on a SNJ training plane and its Pratt & Whitney R-1340 radial engine, Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Florida, United States, 24 July 1943 | WAVES Aviation Metalsmith 3rd Class Claire Bickham and Seaman 1st Class (Aviation Metalsmith) Susie Alvis riveting aircraft, Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Florida, United States, 24 Jul 1943 | WAVES Aviation Metalsmiths and Aviation Machinist's Mates working on a SBD Dauntless aircraft, Assembly and Repair Department, Naval Air Station, Jacksonville, Florida, United States, 24 Jul 1943 |
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British and American servicemen loading wounded soldiers onto a C-47 Skytrain transport at Agrigento, Sicily for transportation to hospitals in Africa, 25 Jul 1943. Note litter Jeep and WC54 ambulances. | 24-foot self-righting rescue motor launch dropped from an RAF Hudson rescue aircraft to the crew of a US B-17 Fortress that ditched in the North Sea, 26 Jul 1943. | Bernard Montgomery and George Patton near Palermo, Sicily, Italy, 28 Jul 1943 | Members of the first class of WAVES to graduate from the Aviation Metalsmith School, at the Naval Air Technical Training Center, Norman, Oklahoma, United States, 30 Jul 1943 |
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USS New Orleans in trials off Seattle in Elliott Bay, Washington, United States 30 Jul 1943 following major repairs at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard. | 105mm Howitzer M2A1 crew of US 152nd Field Artillery Battalion on New Georgia, Solomon Islands, 1943 | A TBM Avenger on an aircraft carrier elevator as seen from the hangar deck, 1943 | A-36A Mustang aircraft 'Doodle', Sicily, Italy, 1943. This plane’s assigned pilot, R. Bryant, is at left. |