Photos Taken in Atlantic Ocean | World War II Database

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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

Deutsche Luft Hansa flying boat tender Westfalen in the Atlantic Ocean, 1933; note Wal flying boat	Battleship USS Maryland underway in 1935.

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

Émile Bertin off Norway, Apr 1940	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	HMS Hermes and HMS Dorsetshire escorting convoy US.3 with Australian and New Zealand troops on board, Atlantic Ocean, 9 Jun 1940

German armed merchant cruiser Atlantis immediately after she had stopped Egyptian passenger liner ZamZam in the South Atlantic, 18 Apr 1941	A smoke cloud hanging over HMS Hood immediately after an explosion, Battle of Denmark Strait, 24 May 1941

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

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

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

Survivors of battleship Bismarck being pulled aboard HMS Dorsetshire, 27 May 1941	N-3PB floatplane of No. 330 (Norwegian) Squadron RAF in flight near Akureyri, Iceland, Oct 1941