Photos Taken in Pacific Ocean | World War II Database

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Chikuma during Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 26 Oct 1942; photograph taken by an aircraft from USS Enterprise; note smoke coming from bridge area which sustained bomb damage	USS California steaming at high speed in the Pacific Ocean off San Diego, California, United States, circa 1921

USS R-14 underway with improvised sails, Pacific Ocean, May 1921	Forward deck of USS S-41, off San Francisco, California, United States, 26 Feb 1924

A biplane landing on carrier Hosho, East China Sea, 1932	Yamashiro running trials in the Pacific Ocean south of Tateyama, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, 24 Dec 1934, photo 1 of 2

Yamashiro running trials in the Pacific Ocean south of Tateyama, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, 24 Dec 1934, photo 2 of 2	Japanese pilots Masao Asai and Masao Sato aboard carrier Akagi in the East China Sea, 1938-1939; note A5M fighter in background

Submarine tender Tsurugizaki in the Pacific Ocean off Tateyama, Chiba, Japan, 30 Jan 1939; she was later converted to become light carrier Shoho	Major General Roy Geiger, Colonel Merwin Silverthorn, and Brigadier General Pedro del Valle studying Guam terrain aboard USS Appalachian, mid-1944

Cruiser USS Honolulu exercising in Hawaiian waters, 5 Nov 1941. Note her dark blue Measure 1 paint in anticipation of war. This paint led to the ship’s nickname “Blue Goose” that stuck with her throughout her career.	A6M2 Zero fighter aboard carrier Akagi prior or during the attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec 1941

Kaga in heavy seas en route to Pearl Harbor, circa early Dec 1941; carrier Zuikaku in background	Carrier Akagi, battleship Hiei, and battleship Kirishima in the Pacific Ocean en route toward US Territory of Hawaii, 6 Dec 1941

Flight leader Masao Sato (second row, third from right) with his pilots aboard Zuikaku, 6 Dec 1941; note Tetsuzo Iwamoto second row, right-most	Group portrait of the flight officers of Shokaku while the ship was underway toward US Territory of Hawaii, 6 Dec 1941

Japanese B5N torpedo bomber crews posing before a B5N aircraft aboard carrier Kaga, Pacific Ocean, 6 Dec 1941	Japanese carrier pilots receiving instructions before attacking Pearl Harbor, Pacific Ocean, Dec 1941

Lieutenant Ichiro Kitajima briefing his bomber crews on the Pearl Harbor attack aboard carrier Kaga, 6 Dec 1941	A Zero fighter took off from Akagi for the attack on Pearl Harbor in the US Territory of Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941