62 items in this album on 4 pages.
| |
General Douglas MacArthur traveling by PT-Boat across Leyte Gulf off Tacloban, Philippines aboard PT-525, an Elco 80-foot PT-Boat of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 36 (MTBRon-36), 24 Oct 1944. | PT-131 between PT-152 and PT-130, all Eclo 80-foot Motor Torpedo Boats of MTBRon-7, alongside tender USS Wachapreague in Liloan Bay, Philippines preparing to patrol the Surigao Strait, 24 Oct 1944. |
| |
Mugford escorted carriers Belleau Wood and Franklin, both damaged by special attack aircraft, off Philippine Islands, 30 Oct 1944; note Mugford's midships 20mm gun crews | PT-370 of MTB Squadron 18 on patrol in the Philippines, circa Nov 1944. PT-370 was a 70-foot Canadian boat and only four such boats were built. All four were outfitted as Elco 80s despite being 10 feet shorter. |
| |
As seen from of the USS Hancock, the USS Lexington and USS Yorktown (both Essex-class) are anchored close aboard at Ulithi, late Dec 1944. Note Hancock’s 20mm anti-aircraft guns lining the flight deck. | PT-196, an Elco 80-footer of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 12 (MTBRon 12) astern of PT Boat tender USS Wachapreague, Philippines, late 1944. Note the name “Purple Shaft” just below the windscreen. |
| |
Religious service aboard HMS Howe, Sydney, Australia, Dec 1944 | African-American US Coast Guard Steward's Mate 3rd Class Dorall Austin manning his 20-mm Oerlikon autocannon aboard an assault transport in the Pacific, date unknown |
| |
African-American US Coast Guardsmen studying the assembly of a 20-mm AA gun aboard a ship, date unknown | Elco 80-foot torpedo boat PT-130 at cruising speed as seen from PT-143, 1944-45. Note Mark XIII aerial torpedoes, Bofors 40mm gun aft, and 37mm cannon forward on PT-130 and Oerlikon 20mm gun in foreground. |
| |
Five African-American US Coast Guardsmen manning a 20-mm Oerlikon AA autocannon aboard a frigate in the southwest Pacific, date unknown. L to R: J Wesley, L Haywood, W Watson, W Morton, O Lane | Oerlikon guns in the catwalk of USS Hornet, Feb 1945 |
| |
PT-245, a Higgins 78-footer of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 20 (MTBRon 20), southwest Pacific, circa 1945. | The splash close aboard the port side of USS Essex was caused by a Japanese D4Y Suisei dive bomber that crossed over the flight deck forward of the island before dropping into the sea, 19 Mar 1945 |
| |
Gunners aboard USS Miami firing at Japanese aircraft, off Okinawa, Japan, 14 Apr 1945 | Seaman 1st Class Frank Stanley cleaning a 20mm gun aboard USS Anzio, 19 Apr 1945 |
| |
PT-490, an 80-foot Elco motor torpedo boat with MTB Squadron 33, transporting Gen Douglas MacArthur, LGen Robert Eichelberger, and staff from Iloilo on Panay to Bacolod on Negros in the Philippines, 7 Jun 1945. | PT-377, an 80-foot Elco boat with MTB Squadron 27, transporting Vice Admiral Michiaki Kamada (not pictured) and staff to the signing of the Japanese surrender of Borneo aboard HMAS Burdekon in Makassar Strait, 8 Sep 1945 |
| |
PT-377, an 80-foot Elco boat with MTB Squadron 27, transporting Vice Admiral Michiaki Kamada (seated) and staff to the signing of the Japanese surrender of Borneo aboard HMAS Burdekon in Makassar Strait, 8 Sep 1945 | A 20mm anti-aircraft gun aboard Texas, 2007 |
62 items in this album on 4 pages.