World War II Photograph Search [oat]

500 items in this album on 25 pages.


Haskell-class attack transport USS Clinton, date unknown; note the absence of most of her boats normally stowed on deck	Kinkaid aboard a motor torpedo boat in the Leyte-Samar area, Philippines, 1945

Sanborn's officers in a boat, circa 1945	PT-325, an Elco 80-footer of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 21 (MTBRon 21) being hoisted aboard PT Boat tender USS Cyrene in San Pedro Bay, Leyte, Philippines, Jan 1945.

PT-628, a 78-foot Higgins boat, during testing on Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana, United States, Jan 1945.	PT-245, a Higgins 78-footer of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 20 (MTBRon 20), southwest Pacific, circa 1945.

PT-330, an Elco 80-footer of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 21 (MTBRon 21), underway in the Philippines, circa 1945. Note the smoke generator canister on the stern.	PT-331, an Elco 80-footer of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 21 (MTBRon 21), in Leyte Gulf, 1945. Note shell splashes in the distance.

Essex-class carrier USS Bon Homme Richard cruising in the Gulf of Paria between Trinidad and Venezuela on her shakedown cruise, 7 Feb 1945. Note TBM Avenger on her deck and Coast Guard guard boat alongside	Landing craft forming up boat waves in preparation for the initial landings on Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945

A Curtiss SC Seahawk floatplane on USS Nashville’s catapult, 1945. Note the radar pod under the right wing. Missing from the ship is the starboard aircraft catapult that was removed in the Mar 1945 refit at Puget Sound.	A Mark XIII aerial torpedo with wooden shroud rings fore and aft being loaded from a boat into the starboard bomb bay (in the engine nacelle) of a PBM Mariner patrol aircraft, probably 1945 in the Pacific.

Chaplains Strum, Sartelle, Sneary, Barney, Hoatling, John Craven, Singer, and Wood of US 4th Marine Division at the division's cemetery on Iwo Jima, Japan, Mar 1945	LST-1041 loaded with Higgins 78-foot PT-Boats (PT-626, PT-627, PT-628, & PT-634) in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, Mar 1945. These boats were taken to Puget Sound where they were transferred to the USSR

US Navy PBM Mariner using Rocket Assisted Take-Off packs (RATO) at Port Lyautey, French Morocco, 1945. Note OS2U Kingfisher float planes on the fantail of a battleship at left.	One of the Alaska's Curtiss SC-1 floatplanes taxiing up to the landing mat streamed alongside, to be picked up by the aircraft crane, off Iwo Jima, 6 Mar 1945

One of the Alaska's Curtiss SC-1 floatplanes waited for pickup by the ship's crane, off Iwo Jima, 6 Mar 1945	US Navy Cmdr. Thomas Gaylord administering oath to five new nurses commissioned in New York, United States, 8 Mar 1945; Phyllis Mae Dailey, USN's first African-American nurse, stood second from right

Patrol Boat No. 102, Kure, Japan, 12 Mar 1945	US battleship Alabama underway in Puget Sound, Washington, United States, 15 Mar 1945, photo 5 of 5; aerial stern view, note empty float plane catapults