Photos Taken in Pacific Ocean | World War II Database

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Escort Carrier USS Attu and Fleet Carrier USS Shangri-La (left) exchanging personnel and equipment by high wire while at sea, 3 Sep 1945. Note F4U Corsairs and SB2C Helldiver aircraft on Attu’s deck.	USS Shangri-La approaching USS Attu (not in photo) to transfer personnel and supplies, Pacific Ocean, 3 Sep 1945

Battleship USS Nevada in conspicuous markings prior to the Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll, Jul 1946. Nevada was the intended aiming point for the B-29 delivering the bomb.	USS Shangri-La underway, Pacific Ocean, 17 Aug 1946; note air group identification letter Z on flight deck rather than the usual hull number 38

F4U-4B Corsairs of Fighter Squadron VF-54 ‘Copperheads’ armed with HVAR air-to-surface rockets preparing for launch from the carrier USS Valley Forge, 1 May 1950 off Korea.	US President Harry Truman and Pacific Fleet Commander Admiral Arthur Radford walking to their car at the Wake Island conference, 16 Oct 1950. Note lines from early wirephoto transmission “noise.”

USS Sterlet off US Territory of Hawaii, 19 May 1955	USS Shangri-La underway, Pacific Ocean, Jan-Jun 1956; seen in US Navy publication Air Task Group 3 1956 cruise book

USS Shangri-La launching F9F-8 Cougar aircraft of VF-53 squadron, Pacific Ocean, 10 Jan 1956	Chiang Kaishek inspecting the US Marines detachment of USS Midway, in the Taiwan Strait off Kinmen (Quemoy) island, Fujian Province, Republic of China, 1958; note US Navy Pacific Fleet commander Admiral Herbert Hopwood

Destroyer USS Nicholas alongside Essex-class carrier USS Philippine Sea in the western Pacific, 1958. Note the carrier’s 5-inch/38 and 40mm Bofors guns.	After the hulk of the submarine Tinosa was used as a target ship, it was scuttled off Hawaii in Nov 1960.

Marcel le Bihan with submarine Archimède (background) over the Kuril Trench in the Pacific Ocean, 1962	Destroyer USS Nicholas at sea, Jun 1964. Note that her No. 2 gun mount now holds a RUR-4 ahead-throwing anti-submarine rocket launcher.

Carrier USS Hornet (Essex-class) and the destroyer USS Nicholas during underway replenishment from the fleet oiler USS Cimarron off the coast of North Vietnam, circa 1966.	USS Hornet receiving fuel and ordnance from USS Sacramento, South China Sea, Jun 1967

USS Hornet underway, Gulf of Tonkin, 5 Sep 1967	USS Bennington recovering the Apollo 4 capsule in the Central Pacific, 9 Nov 1967.

USS Nicholas (near) and USS O’Bannon (far) guiding carrier USS Enterprise (Enterprise-class) in the Gulf of Tonkin, South China Sea, 6 Mar 1968.	USS Hornet underway, Pacific Ocean, 9 Aug 1968