Photos of World War II Ships | World War II Database

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Gun crews on a twin 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft mount take their meals at general quarters aboard the Light Carrier USS Independence in the Caribbean Sea, 30 Apr 1943.	USS West Virginia (foreground) and USS North Carolina (background) at Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, US Territory of Hawaii, 30 Apr 1943

West Virginia off Pearl Harbor after temporary repairs, 30 Apr 1943	20mm Oerlikon cannon crew engaged in anti-aircraft exercise aboard USS Iowa, May 1943

24 SBD, 11 F6F, and 18 TBF/TBM aircraft parked on the flight deck of carrier Essex, May 1943	Admiral Dudley Pound on the bridge of RMS Queen Mary, May 1943

Chuyo at Truk, Caroline Islands, May 1943; note sister ship Unyo on left	Crewmen of the United States Coast Guard cutter Spencer celebrating the new artwork on the ship’s funnel commemorating Spencer’s sinking of U-175 by depth charge in the North Atlantic.

Dudley Pound and Winston Churchill aboard RMS Queen Mary in the United States, May 1943	Elco 80-foot torpedo boats PT-149 and PT-122 at Tulagi, Solomon Islands, 1943. Note Mark XIII torpedoes and radar dome atop the mast.

F6F-3 Hellcat fighter being prepared for launch aboard USS Yorktown during the carrier's shakedown cruise, May 1943	Flight deck of the USS Yorktown (Essex-class) crowded with aircraft, May 1943 in the Pacific. While he is not credited with this photo, this is probably a Charles Kerlee photograph.

Floating crane YD-25 raising USS Arizona’s foremast during salvage operations in Pearl Harbor, Oahu, Hawaii, circa 1943. Note the guns of Arizona's No. 2 turret rising out of the water.	Liberty-ships at CalShip’s fitting-out docks, May 1943, Los Angeles, California, United States. In the foreground is SS Ignace Paderewski, which only spent 12 days at these docks before being delivered into service.

Line drawing of the Bogue-class escort carrier USS Croatan, May 1943.	Louisville and San Francisco operating in the Bering Sea during May 1943

Mark XIII aerial torpedo after bodies in the torpedo storage spaces of the USS Yorktown (Essex-class) during Yorktown’s shakedown cruise to Trinidad, May 1943	Nachi, Heian Maru, and Teiyo Maru at Paramushiru, Kurile Islands, May 1943

Oerlikon and 5-inch mounts aboard USS Iowa during her shakedown cruise off east coast of the United States, May 1943	Rear smokestack of USS Iowa at work during shakedown cruise on the east coast of the United States, May 1943; note quad Bofors mount in foreground