Tennessee-class Photographs | World War II Database

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USS ABSD-1 with USS California in the dock, Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, circa 8 Sep 1944	Battleship Tennessee and a Fletcher-class destroyer provide gunfire support while LVTs raced for the beaches of Iwo Jima, morning of 19 Feb 1945

Battleship Tennessee and other American ships firing on Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945	Battleship Tennessee bombarding the base of Mount Suribachi before the initial landings, causing a huge explosion, Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945

Battleship Tennessee fired her 14-inch guns at targets on Iwo Jima as LVTs headed for the landing beaches, 19 Feb 1945, photo 1 of 2	Battleship Tennessee fired her 14-inch guns at targets on Iwo Jima as LVTs headed for the landing beaches, 19 Feb 1945, photo 2 of 2

Battleship Tennessee off Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945	Landing craft forming up boat waves in preparation for the initial landings on Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945

LVT landers carried US Marines past battleship Tennessee toward Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945	The first wave of landing craft at Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945, photo 2 of 6

The first wave of landing craft at Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945, photo 3 of 6	The first wave of landing craft at Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945, photo 4 of 6

The first wave of landing craft at Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945, photo 5 of 6	The first wave of landing craft at Iwo Jima, 19 Feb 1945, photo 6 of 6

USS Shannon steaming through Ulithi anchorage, Caroline Islands, 13 Mar 1945; note USS Flint at left, USS Miami at right, carriers USS Enterprise, USS Intrepid, USS Essex, and USS Bunker Hill, and battleship Tennessee behind Intrepid.	US battleships New Mexico, Idaho, and Tennessee off Iwo Jima or Okinawa, Feb-Apr 1945

USS Tennessee burning shortly after being struck by a Japanese D3A special attack aircraft of Operation Kikusui No. 2, off Okinawa, Japan, 12 Apr 1945	Aerial view of the Reserve Fleet Basin at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, United States, 19 May 1955