Photos Taken in Pacific Ocean | World War II Database

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Sailors with unusual haircuts received during a Line Cross Ceremony aboard USS Saratoga, Mar 1944	Port side view of the USS Bunker Hill while at sea off the Palau Islands, 27 Mar 1944. Note the Measure 32, Design 6A paint scheme, only two carriers were painted this way.

Ordinancemen working to load a Mark 10 aerial mine into the bomb bay of a TBF-1C of Torpedo Squadron VT-16 aboard USS Lexington (Essex-class), 29 Mar 1944 off the Palau Islands.	Burial at sea services aboard USS Lexington (Essex-class) following action around Palau, 2 Apr 1944.

Destroyer USS Knapp with battleship USS Alabama of Task Group 58.3 steaming from New Guinea toward Truk, 28 Apr 1944.	F6F-3 Hellcats of Fighting Squadron 16 (VF-16) landing aboard the USS Lexington (Essex-class), north of Manus, 28 Apr 1944. Note battleship USS South Dakota crossing Lexington’s wake.

Wallet certificate issued to AOM2c Neil Wirick of Torpedo Squadron VT-27 aboard the USS Princeton on the occasion of crossing the 180th meridian, which happened on 1 Jun 1944 as Princeton steamed from Hawaii to Majuro.	Photo from an SBD Dauntless moments after taking off from the USS Lexington (Essex-class) for strikes against Saipan in the Mariana Islands, 13 Jun 1944

Task Force bound from Kwajalein to Saipan for the invasion of the Mariana Islands, mid-Jun 1944. Photo taken from USS Honolulu. Note the OS2U Kingfisher float plane on the catapult.	USS Braine transferring wounded to USS New Mexico, 14 Jun 1944

Cruisers USS New Orleans and St. Louis bombard Saipan in the Mariana Islands, 15 Jun 1944. Photo taken from USS Wichita.	TBM-1C Avenger crash landed aboard USS Hornet (Essex-class) after the landing gear collapsed due to hydraulic failure from battle damage, 15 Jun 1944. Photo 1 of 2.

TBM-1C Avenger crash landed aboard USS Hornet (Essex-class) after the landing gear collapsed due to hydraulic failure from battle damage, 15 Jun 1944. Photo 2 of 2.	USS New Mexico underway off Guam, 15 Jun 1944, photo 1 of 2

USS New Mexico underway off Guam, 15 Jun 1944, photo 2 of 2	An F6F-3 Hellcat of Fighting Squadron 1, the “High Hatters,” sustains a catastrophic failure while landing aboard the carrier USS Yorktown (Essex-class) north of the Marianas, 16 Jun 1944.

Japanese aircraft exploding near the stern of USS Corregidor, off Saipan, Mariana Islands, 17 Jun 1944; seen from the flight deck of USS Coral Sea	USS Corregidor firing on Japanese aircraft off Saipan, Mariana Islands, 17 Jun 1944; seen from the flight deck of USS Coral Sea

Flaming Japanese Nakajima J1N1 Gekkō "Irving" plunging toward the sea near the Marianas Islands as seen from escort carrier Kitkun Bay, 18 Jun 1944, photo 1 of 2.	Flaming Japanese Nakajima J1N1 Gekkō "Irving" plunging toward the sea near the Marianas Islands as seen from escort carrier Kitkun Bay, 18 Jun 1944, photo 2 of 2.