155 items in this album on 8 pages.
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| 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 |
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| Deutsche Luft Hansa flying boat tender Westfalen in the Atlantic Ocean, 1933; note Wal flying boat | Battleship USS Maryland underway in 1935. |
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| HMS Glorious and HMS Diana, Norwegian Sea, May 1940; photo taken from HMS Ark Royal | Scharnhorst firing her forward guns against HMS Glorious, in the Norwegian Sea west of Narvik, Norway, 8 Jun 1940 |
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| HMS Hermes and HMS Dorsetshire escorting convoy US.3 with Australian and New Zealand troops on board, Atlantic Ocean, 9 Jun 1940 | HMS Rajputaana (F 35) sinking in the North Atlantic Ocean, 13 Apr 1941 |
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| British motor merchant vessel Beacon Grange sinking after being struck by German submarine U-552, south of Iceland, 27 Apr 1941 | A smoke cloud hanging over HMS Hood immediately after an explosion, Battle of Denmark Strait, 24 May 1941 |
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| Bismarck firing on Hood and Prince of Wales, Battle of Denmark Strait, 24 May 1941, photo 8 of 8; photographed from Prinz Eugen | Hood exploding at Denmark Strait, seen from Prinz Eugen, 24 May 1941 |
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| Painting by J. C. Schmitz-Westerholt depicting Hood's loss on 24 May 1941; Prince of Wales is in the foreground | Smoke from Prince of Wales and Hood, seen from Prinz Eugen, 24 May 1941, photo 1 of 2 |
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| Smoke from Prince of Wales and Hood, seen from Prinz Eugen, 24 May 1941, photo 2 of 2 | HMS Rodney firing on German battleship Bismarck, 27 May 1941 |
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| Survivors of battleship Bismarck being pulled aboard HMS Dorsetshire, 27 May 1941 | Cruiser USS Omaha (right) laying off the seized German blockade runner Odenwald in the South Atlantic, 6 Nov 1941. The Odenwald had been disguised as the US-flag ship Willmoto carrying rubber from Japan to Germany. |
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| US Navy prize crew aboard the seized German blockade runner Odenwald in the South Atlantic, 6 Nov 1941. The Odenwald had been disguised as the US-flag ship Willmoto carrying rubber from Japan to Germany. | Sketch of the explosion on Hood by Royal Navy Captain J. C. Leach for the 2nd Board of Enquiry, 1941 |
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