Alaska Photographs | World War II Database

28 items in this album on 2 pages.


Launching of large cruiser Alaska, Camden, New Jersey, United States, 15 Aug 1943	Alaska off the Philadelphia Navy Yard, 30 Jul 1944, photo 1 of 2

Alaska off the Philadelphia Navy Yard, 30 Jul 1944, photo 2 of 2	Alaska during shakedown, off the US east coast, Aug 1944

Alaska in the Hampton Roads area, Virginia, circa summer or fall 1944	Alaska maneuvered in front of Missouri during their shakedown cruises, circa Aug 1944

Alaska, seen from battleship Missouri, summer 1944	Missouri's 40mm quad anti-aircraft machine crew at battle stations atop turret number two during her shakedown, Aug 1944; Alaska in background

Large cruiser Alaska, photographed from the air, 8 Aug 1944	WAVES Yeoman Second Class Blanche Oswald and Yeoman Third Class Betty Martin aboard USS Missouri, Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, United States, 19 Aug 1944. Note USS Alaska and escort carrier USS Croatan.

Battleship Missouri, large cruiser Alaska, escort carrier Croatan, and destroyers at Norfolk Operating Base, Norfolk, Virginia, 20 Aug 1944	Alaska underway, 11 Sep 1944

Alaska off Philadelphia, 12 Nov 1944	Alaska off Philadelphia, 13 Nov 1944, photo 1 of 2

Alaska off Philadelphia, 13 Nov 1944, photo 2 of 2	Alaska somewhere in the Pacific, circa 1945

Closeup view of Alaska's superstructure and aircraft catapults, 1945	Captain Kenneth H. Noble aboard Alaska, Feb 1945

Marines Corporal Osborne Cheek and Platoon Sergeant George W. Ewell at their post atop a 5-in gun aboard Alaska, Feb 1945	Signalman Third Class Teddy Chalupski wrote a message on the signal bridge while SM3/c Floyd H. Scharp read it with the telescope, aboard Alaska, Feb 1945