Photos of World War II Ships | World War II Database

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The Landing Signal Officer watches just before a TBF-1 Avenger traps aboard the training aircraft carrier USS Wolverine on Lake Michigan, United States, 1943.	The training aircraft carrier USS Wolverine steams past two sailboats on Lake Michigan, United States, 1943.

Tirpitz camouflaged in the Flehke Fjord, Norway	Top view of USS Drum's conning tower, showing her twin 20mm Oerlikon anti-aircraft weapons, 1940s

Transfer of after peak section of a Liberty ship under construction at Kaiser Richmond No. 2 Yard, Richmond, California, United States, 1940s	U-821 under construction at the Oderwerke shipyard in Stettin, Germany, 1943

USS Alabama firing a broadside in the Atlantic Ocean, 1943	USS Alabama turning to starboard in the Atlantic Ocean during an exercise, Dec 1942-Jan 1943

USS Columbia underway, 1943-44.	USS Drum's bow and conning tower, 1940s

USS Helena at a base in the South Pacific, circa 1943	USS New Orleans making repairs under make-shift camouflage in Tulagi Harbor, Solomon Islands, 1 Dec 1942. New Orleans was struck by a torpedo in the Battle of Tassafaronga that blew off 150 feet of her bow.

USS North Carolina, 1943	USS Picking underway, circa 1943

USS Pogy underway, possibly in the Great Lakes, United States, circa 1943	USS R-1 underway, circa 1940s

USS S-28 underway, circa 1940s	USS Saratoga and HMS Victorious at Nouméa, New Caledonia, 1943

USS South Dakota and USS Alabama in the North Atlantic, 1943	USS South Dakota and USS Alabama underway in the Atlantic Ocean, 1943; photo taken from HMS King George V