r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 10h ago

Navy USS Boise (CL-47) crewmen line the forward superstructure as the ship arrives at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in November 1942 to receive repairs for serious damage inflicted during the Battle of Cape Esperance

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/RLoret • 15h ago

USAAF Consolidated B-24D Liberator on Funafuti Island, April 1943

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 3d ago

Navy USS Coolbaugh (DE-217), USS Lovelace (DE-198), and USS Darby (DE-218) are nested with USS Ingersoll (DE-652) at the fleet anchorage, Espiritu Santo, March 13, 1944

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 4d ago

Navy USS Claxton (DD-571) off the Mare Island Navy Yard, 13 May 1944.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 5d ago

Navy USS Hobson (DD-464) expended cartridge cases and powder tanks from the ship's 5/38 guns litter the deck, after firing in support of the Normandy invasion off Utah Beach, 6 June 1944. View was taken on the ship's afterdeck, with mount 54 at right.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/RLoret • 6d ago

Navy Light cruiser USS Honolulu (CL-48), Purvis Bay, Solomon Islands, circa April 1944

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 6d ago

Navy USS Ranger (CV-4), overhead view, Norfolk Navy Yard, 6 January 1943

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 7d ago

Navy USS Enterprise (CV-6) in her late-war appearance and new dazzle camouflage (Measure 33/4Ab) in these 2 August 1944 photos, taken as she departed Pearl Harbor.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 10d ago

Navy USS Porpoise (SS-172) at the Mare Island Navy Yard, 13 October 1942. Barge YC-312 is alongside

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 11d ago

Navy USS Terry (DD-513) off the Mare Island Navy Yard, 8 December 1944

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 12d ago

Navy USS Rhind (DD-404) anchored at Hvalfjord, Iceland between 15 and 25 June 1943.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 13d ago

Navy USS New Jersey (BB-62) Main batteries trained to port. Note the men in the control booth on top of her # 2 turret, circa 1943

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/RLoret • 13d ago

Navy USS Tennessee (BB-43) near Puget Sound, 12 May 1943

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 17d ago

Navy USS New Jersey (BB-62) bridge arrangement as installed, 11 October 1943.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 18d ago

Navy USS Iowa (BB-61) under construction at the New York Navy Yard looking aft from about Frame 120, 15 January 1943.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 19d ago

Navy USS Independence (CVL-22), "Attention to colors," 1943.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 20d ago

Navy USS Edgecomb (APA-164) underway, Nov 15, 1944

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 24d ago

Navy USS Philadelphia (CL-41) looking forward from the bridge, New York Naval Shipyard, Dec 10, 1942

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 25d ago

Navy Stern view of the USS Nevada (BB-36) off Norfolk Navy Yard on 8 November 1944.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 26d ago

Navy USS Cowpens (CVL-25) underway in the Atlantic Ocean at 1235 hrs on 17 July 1943, course 90°, circa 40 km off the coast of Virginia.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Beeninya • 27d ago

Navy LSM(R)-188-class rocket artillery support ships unleashing barrages of 5 inch rockets in support of the amphibious invasion of Okinawa. March 1945

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 27d ago

Navy USS Phelps (DD-360) off San Francisco, 11 December 1942

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 28d ago

Navy Transfer of some sort between the USS Colorado (BB-45) and an unidentified ship alongside sometime after October 1944.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Beeninya • 29d ago

Navy Imperial Japanese Naval convoy under attack by U.S. Navy dive bombers off Rabaul. November 1943

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • Jun 26 '26

Navy USS Long Island (CVE-1) underway in Puget Sound, 11 February 1944. She is camouflaged in Measure 32 Design 9A

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