World War II Photograph Search [oat]

500 items in this album on 25 pages.


Japanese destroyer Hatsuzakura off Tokyo Bay with a whaleboat from USS Nicholas alongside to transfer Japanese translators and harbor pilots to Nicholas, 27 Aug 1945. Photo 2 of 2.	Japanese Shinyo-class suicide boat seized by the British at Picnic Bay, Honk Kong after the war ended, Sep 1945.

Li Zongren at the northern moat of the Forbidden City, Beiping, China, Sep 1945, photo 1 of 2; note Shenwumen gate in background	Li Zongren at the northern moat of the Forbidden City, Beiping, China, Sep 1945, photo 2 of 2; note Shenwumen gate in background

PT-377, an 80-foot Elco boat with MTB Squadron 27, transporting Vice Admiral Michiaki Kamada (not pictured) and staff to the signing of the Japanese surrender of Borneo aboard HMAS Burdekon in Makassar Strait, 8 Sep 1945	PT-377, an 80-foot Elco boat with MTB Squadron 27, transporting Vice Admiral Michiaki Kamada (seated) and staff to the signing of the Japanese surrender of Borneo aboard HMAS Burdekon in Makassar Strait, 8 Sep 1945

At the United States Naval Academy’s centennial exhibition, the captured U-505 and torpedo boat T35 are on display as war trophies, Annapolis, Maryland, United States, Oct 1945	Captured Shinyo special attack boat, late 1945

Kawanishi H6K ‘Mavis’ flying boat in surrender paint scheme abandoned at Surabaya, Java, 1945.	Liberty Ship IX-229 Inca/IX-227 Gamage aground in Buckner Bay, Okinawa, Oct 1945; note a floating drydock nearby and another Liberty Ship in distance

Shinyo special attack boat being tested by US Army Lieutenant Colonel James Doyle, late 1945	USS Enterprise being pushed by tug boats, New York, New York, United States, 17 Oct 1945

PT-221 and PT-222, Higgins 78-foot motor torpedo boats, along with many other PT Boats being stripped of their parts before their hulls were burned, Samar, Philippines, Nov 1945.	H8K flying boat taking off, US Navy Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River, Maryland, United States, 1946-1947; seen in Aug 1947 issue of US Navy publication Naval Aviation News

H8K2-L Seiku transport flying boat of Japanese 11th Naval Air Arsenal, Japan, circa late 1940s	N1K1 floatplanes in a hangar, Japan, 1946

British mechanics inspecting a captured Japanese H6K flying boat, Sourabaya, Java, Jan 1946	SB-17G aircraft of Flight D of the US Air Force 5th Rescue Squadron, circa late 1940s; note rescue boat mounted beneath fuselage, chin-mounted radar dome, and Catalina in background

The Boat Dock and pier extending into Waimanalo Bay at Bellows Air Force Base, Oahu, Hawaii, Jul 29, 1949. The entire structure was removed in the late 1950s.	The former PT-694, a 70-foot Vosper, with the Hughes Tool Company as a service boat in the H-4 Flying Boat project, 1950s. Later sold to Universal Studios and painted as PT-73 for the opening credits of “McHale’s Navy.”