Photos of World War II Ships | World War II Database

7,952 items in this album on 398 pages.


Aerial view of US battleship Massachusetts, 1943; note OS2U Kingfisher float planes on the fantail catapults	After an aborted landing, an F4F-4 Wildcat bolters around the island of the training aircraft carrier USS Wolverine on Lake Michigan, United States, 1943.

Aircraft mechanics strapping in pilots of Martlet fighters aboard HMS Formidable, 1940s	Albacore aircraft of No. 820 Squadron FAA aboard HMS Formidable, 1940-1945

An SNJ Texan, an F4F Wildcat, and a TBF-1 Avenger tied down on the flight deck of the training aircraft carrier USS Wolverine on Lake Michigan, United States, 1943.	An SNJ-3C Texan noses over aboard the training aircraft carrier USS Wolverine on Lake Michigan, United States, 1943.

An SNJ-3C Texan noses over just before reaching the edge of the flight deck aboard the training aircraft carrier USS Wolverine on Lake Michigan, United States, 1943.	Anti-aircraft gunnery drill aboard USS Alabama in the Atlantic Ocean, 1943

Armourers loading a 1,600-lb bomb onto a Barracuda aircraft aboard HMS Formidable, 1940s	Battleship Roma, 1942-1943

British Royal Navy Home Fleet warships in Norwegian waters, date unknown; ships in background included HMS Duke of York, HMS Formidable, and HMS Indefatigable	British ships Vienna (center), Carlisle (behind Vienna), Dido (behind Carlisle), Ashanti (right), Oakley (behind Ashanti), Maidstone (behind Oakley), and Formidable (rear) at Algiers, Algeria, circa 1942-1943

British submarine Graph, formerly German submarine U-570, 1943	Building a model of the Tirpitz on board the Tirpitz

Dead Japanese soldiers and wrecked Daihatsu-class landing craft on Buna beach, New Guinea, 1943	Diorama by Norman Bel Geddes of USS Nautilus' torpedo attack on carrier Kaga; note this war time depiction did not resemble Kaga

Émile Bertin at sea, date unknown	Entertainment provided for Tirpitz's men

F4U-1 Corsair bouncing up on the flight deck of USS Bunker Hill during an landing attempt, 1943; seen in Feb 1969 issue of US Navy publication Naval Aviation News	F6F Hellcat fighters going through launch procedures aboard the carrier Saratoga, off Gilbert Islands, early 1943.