Photos of World War II Ships | World War II Database

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Group portrait of airmen with a FM-1 Wildcat fighter aboard USS Coral Sea, 30 Oct 1943	Lieutenant Commander J. J. Lynch conducting a pre-flight briefing aboard USS Coral Sea, 30 Oct 1943

Lieutenant J. P. Weinel posing with a FM-1 Wildcat fighter aboard USS Coral Sea, 30 Oct 1943	Lieutenant R. S. Evarts posing with a TBF Avenger aircraft aboard USS Coral Sea, 30 Oct 1943

Welders at the keel laying ceremony of submarine Springer, Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States, 30 Oct 1943	USS Gunnel at Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, California, United States, 31 Oct 1943

A Jeep on the deck of the USS Yorktown (Essex-class) being used as an aircraft tug during the strikes on Wake Island, 5 Oct 1943. In this case, the Jeep is being hooked to a TBM-1C Avenger.	A F6F-3 Hellcat fighter landing on USS Saratoga, Nov 1943; note SBD-5 Dauntless aircraft in foreground

Avenger torpedo bomber landing on Cowpens, Pacific Ocean, circa Nov-Dec 1943	Captain J.J. Clark aboard the USS Yorktown (Essex-class), late 1943.

Carrier Shinyo, Nov 1943	Close-up of the conning tower of USS Iowa, Boston Naval Shipyard, Massachusetts, United States, Nov 1943

F6F-3 Hellcat aircraft on the flight deck of USS Saratoga, Nov 1943	F6F-3 Hellcat, TBF-1 Avenger, and SBD-5 Dauntless aircraft aboard USS Saratoga in the Gilbert Islands, Nov 1943

F6F-3 Hellcats preparing for launch from USS Saratoga for strikes against Tarawa, Gilbert Islands, mid Nov 1943.	Group portrait of fighter pilots of carrier Shokaku, Nov 1943; note group leader Lieutenant Seto (second row, center) and division leader Lieutenant Hohei Kobayashi (to Seto's left)

HMT Gulland underway off Britain, Nov 1943	LtCdr Edward Steichen with his camera on an island catwalk above the flight deck of the USS Lexington (Essex-class), Nov 1943, probably off Hawaii. Note F6F Hellcats on the flight deck.

Portside view of USS Gar off Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, Oct-Nov 1943	Sailors gathered on Cowpens' flight deck, Atlantic Ocean, Jul-Aug 1943; note red lines on side of the SBD Dauntless wing roundel, which was used only between 29 Jun 1943 and 14 Aug 1943