Photos Taken in Atlantic Ocean | World War II Database

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USS Arizona at sea with other US Navy Atlantic Fleet battleships during gunnery practice, circa 1917	USS New Mexico, off Nova Scotia, Canada, late 1920s

US delegates en reoute to Second London Naval Conference aboard passenger liner George Washington, Jan 1930	Deutsche Luft Hansa flying boat tender Westfalen in the Atlantic Ocean, 1933; note Wal flying boat

Battleship USS Maryland underway in 1935.	HMS Apollo underway in the Atlantic Ocean off St. Johns, Virgin Islands, 2 Feb 1937

Sargo underway during her trials off Provincetown, Massachusetts, United States, 1 Nov 1938, photo 1 of 3	Sargo underway during her trials off Provincetown, Massachusetts, United States, 1 Nov 1938, photo 2 of 3

Sargo underway during her trials off Provincetown, Massachusetts, United States, 1 Nov 1938, photo 3 of 3	USS Quincy (foreground) and USS Tuscaloosa (background) preparing to enter the Strait of Magellan from the Atlantic Ocean, 14 May 1939

Admiral Graf Spee in the English Channel, Aug 1939, photo 1 of 2	Admiral Graf Spee in the English Channel, Aug 1939, photo 2 of 2

HMS Courageous sinking in the Atlantic Ocean, 17 Sep 1939	HMS Courageous sinking, Atlantic Ocean, 17 Sep 1939; photograph taken by a British Royal Navy sailor aboard an escorting vessel

German He 115 aircraft dropping a torpedo on an unidentified merchant ship in the English Channel, 1940	Émile Bertin off Norway, Apr 1940

HMS Glorious and HMS Diana, Norwegian Sea, May 1940; photo taken from HMS Ark Royal	Battleship Scharnhorst firing her forward guns against HMS Glorious, in the Norwegian Sea west of Narvik, Norway, 8 Jun 1940; this photograph was taken from battleship Gneisenau

HMS Hermes and HMS Dorsetshire escorting convoy US.3 with Australian and New Zealand troops on board, Atlantic Ocean, 9 Jun 1940	Messerschmitt Bf110 fighter of Zerstörergeschwader 76 heavy fighter squadron over the English Channel, Aug 1940. These were the first fighters with the shark’s mouth that inspired the RAF in Africa and the AVG in China.