Photos of World War II Ships | World War II Database

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Pensacola in Puget Sound, en route for disposal as target, 9 Nov 1948	Decommissioning of USS Blackfin, Mare Island Navy Yard, California, United States, 19 Nov 1948

Japanese Daihatsu-class landing craft being used to transport cattle by Javanese, 28 Nov 1948	Javanese natives operating Japanese-built Daihatsu-class landing craft, 28 Nov 1948

Displaced persons boarding merchant ship Svalbard at Genoa, Italy, Dec 1948; many of these passengers would later be disembarking in Australia	Starboard view of USS Capitaine, 1949

USS Barbero underway, circa late 1940s	USS Capitaine, 1949

USS Capitaine, 1949	USS Finback underway off New London, Connecticut, United States, 7 Mar 1949

USS Capitaine, 11 Apr 1949	USS Essex undergoing modernization at drydock no. 5 of Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington, United States, 22 Apr 1949; seen in US Navy Naval Aviation News Aug 1949

USS Segundo off Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 8 Aug 1949	Crew and midshipmen aboard USS Missouri gathered around the plaque in the deck that marks the spot where the Japanese surrender was signed four years earlier, 2 Sep 1949.

HMS London de-ammunitioning and de-fuelling at Sheerness, Kent, England, United Kingdom, 6 Sep 1949	USS Becuna underway, Oct 1949

Émile Bertin at Toulon, France, 5 Oct 1949	Liberty Ship IX-229 Inca/IX-227 Gamage and LST-823 aground and stripped in Buckner Bay, Okinawa, late 1940s

3-inch guns in the stern gun tubs aboard the USS Essex, circa 1950.	Battleship Sevastopol, 1945-1954