Photos Taken in New Caledonia | World War II Database


USS Helm at anchor at Nouméa, New Caledonia, 6 Apr 1942.	A Jeep packed with mortar shells, a mortar tube between the seats, and the mortar plate on the floor, New Caledonia, 1942.

USS Quincy with Measure 12 (Modified) camouflage scheme at Noumea, New Caledonia, 3 Aug 1942, photo taken from carrier USS Wasp	USS San Juan probably at Nouméa, New Caledonia, 3 Aug 1942; photograph taken from USS Wasp

SS President Adams (foreground) and USS Quincy (background) off New Caledonia, 4 Aug 1942	Major General Richard Sutherland, Admiral Chester Nimitz, Vice Admiral Robert Ghormley, and Major General Millard Harmon meeting aboard USS Argonne at Nouméa, New Caledonia, 28 Sep 1942

South Dakota, DD Mahan, DD Lamson repaired by USS Prometheus at Nouméa, New Caledonia, Nov 1942	Admiral Halsey, Rear Admiral Charles P Mason, Captain Austin K Doyle, and an unidentified captain in the captain's cabin on USS Nassau at Nouméa, New Caledonia, 23 Dec 1942

USS Saratoga and HMS Victorious at Nouméa, New Caledonia, 1943	Alexander Vandegrift and William Halsey at Nouméa, New Caledonia, Jan 1943

B-17E Flying Fortress bomber 'Typhoon McGoon II' of 11th Bomb Group, USAAF 98th Bomb Squadron, New Caledonia, Jan 1943	Aircraft carrier USS Saratoga at Nouméa, New Caledonia, 22 Apr 1943.

HMS Victorious moored at Nouméa, New Caledonia, summer 1943 during the period Victorious was operating with the US Fleet.	During rehearsals for the New Georgia operation, troops climb down nets hung over the side of attack transport USS McCawley to board LCVP landing craft at Nouméa, New Caledonia, 14 Jun 1943

Lieutenant General Millard Harmon, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, and Admiral William Halsey in New Caledonia, 14 Sep 1943	B-17 Flying Fortress bomber in New Caledonia, 1944; note markings that showed 118 bombing missions, 20 aircraft destroyed, 7 merchant ships sunk, and 6 combat vessels destroyed

Lieutenant Howard W. Whalen, New Caledonia, 1945	Sanborn's officers Lieutenant (jg) Wilson O. Kaden, Lieutenant (jg) Carl Jackson, Ensign Louis V. Shepard, New Caledonia, 1945