Photos Taken in Atlantic Ocean | World War II Database

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Corsair fighters and Barracuda torpedo bombers aboard HMS Formidable, in the Atlantic Ocean off Norway, Jul 1944	United States Navy Captain Daniel Gallery and Lt(jg) Albert David on the bridge of escort carrier USS Guadalcanal in the Atlantic following the capture of the German U-505, Jun 1944.

Burial at sea honors aboard escort carrier USS Card in the North Atlantic, 6 Jul 1944. The services were for German Navy Kapitänleutnant Hans Steen, captain of U-233 who had been captured but then died of his wounds.	Burial at sea honors aboard escort carrier USS Card in the North Atlantic, 6 Jul 1944. The services were for German Navy Kapitänleutnant Hans Steen, captain of U-233 who had been captured but then died of his wounds.

USS Ticonderoga conducting flight operations on her shakedown cruise in the Gulf of Paria between the Venezuelan mainland and the island of Trinidad, 14 Jul 1944. Note Ms 33/10A paint scheme.	Barracuda aircraft landing on HMS Formidable after attacking Tirpitz, Norwegian Sea, Aug 1944

Barracuda and Corsair aircraft aboard HMS Formidable in the Norwegian Sea, Aug 1944; note HMS Berwick in background	Crewmen aboard HMS Formidable pushing a damaged Corsair fighter which had just landed, off Norway, Aug 1944. Note the prop with one blade badly bent.

Destroyer Escort USS Fiske broken in two and sinking in the North Atlantic after being torpedoed by German submarine U-804, 2 Aug 1944.	Sub Chaser SC-1062 off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, United States, 2 Aug 1944. Note the stowed Mousetrap anti-submarine rocket rails on the foredeck.

Air Attack on German submarine U-1229 by Lt(jg) Bernard Sissler flying from USS Bogue, 20 Aug 1944. The submarine was sunk with 18 killed and 41 surviving. Note the raised “Schnorkel” device.	USS Nevada underway off the US Atlantic coast while en route from New York, New York, United States to Norfolk, Virginia, United States, 17 Sep 1944; photograph taken from a blimp of squadron ZP-12

USS Bennington steaming out of New York Harbor en route Norfolk, Virginia, 25 Sep 1944. This photo was taken from an airship with Squadron ZP-12 stationed at Lakehurst, New Jersey.	USS Bennington steaming south across the Caribbean on her way to Trinidad on her shakedown cruise, 20 Oct 1944. Note the Measure 33, Design 17 paint scheme.

PBJ-1H Mitchell strafer bomber on the flight deck of USS Shangri-La off Chesapeake Bay during trails to judge the suitability of the Mitchell as a carrier aircraft, 15 Nov 1944.	Escort carrier USS Bogue in Measure 32/Design 4A paint steaming off Quonset Point, Rhode Island, United States, Feb 1945. Note TBM Avengers on deck.

Destroyer HMS Malcolm approaching German submarine U-541 after the U-Boat surrendered pursuant to Germany’s surrender terms, 11 May 1945 off Portugal, photographed from a PBY from VPB-63.	PT-601 “Termites Delight,” an Elco 80-footer that later served with Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 41 (MTBRon 41), is seen here on a shakedown run off Bayonne, New Jersey, United States during Jun 1945.

US President Harry Truman, Secretary of State James Byrnes, and Captain James Foskett aboard USS Augusta, 11 Jul 1945	Canadian troops aboard RMS Queen Elizabeth in the Atlantic Ocean, Dec 1945