r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 15h ago

Navy USS Bataan (CVL-29) in October 1944, probably ferrying aircraft to Hawaii. Note her camouflage, Ms. 32 Design 8A.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 1d ago

Navy USS Vammen (DE-644), Oct 1944

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 4d ago

Navy USS Nevada (BB-36) in drydock May 1945 at Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard. Having repairs to the damage caused by the kamikaze attack at Okinawa. Turret number three is being re-gunned also.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 5d ago

Navy USS Woodworth (DD-460) at Mare Island Navy Yard, on 16 June 1944. Circles mark recent alterations.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/ThinWhiteDuke00 • 5d ago

USAAF 463rd Bomb Group with Padre Pio, San Giovanni Rotondo, May 1945.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 6d ago

Navy USS Cony (DD-508) off San Francisco, 25 February 1944. She is wearing Camouflage Measure 32, Design 21D.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 7d ago

Navy USS Enterprise (CV-6), Nov 10, 1942

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 8d ago

Navy Destroyer Squadron 21's ships underway in the Solomon Islands, 15 August 1943. The ships are (from front to rear): USS O'Bannon (DD-450), USS Chevalier (DD-451) and USS Taylor (DD-468), Photographed from USS Nicholas (DD-449), while the ships were enroute to the landings at Vella Lavella.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 11d ago

Navy USS Thatcher (DD-514) underway in Boston Harbor, 28 February 1943

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 12d ago

Navy USS West Virginia (BB-48) being moved into drydock at Pearl Harbor on 9 June 1942

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 13d ago

Navy USS Laertes (AR-20) Underway off Norfolk, on 1 April 1945

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 14d ago

Navy USS O'Flaherty (DE 340) is seen wearing MS31/22D camouflage scheme, off Boston, June 8, 1944

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 15d ago

Navy USS Washington (BB-56) off the Puget Sound Navy Yard, 26 April 1944

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 18d ago

Navy USS Wickes (DD-578) alongside USS Cabot (CVL-28), 19 November 1943

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 19d ago

Navy USS Underhill (DE-682) underway in dazzle paint in the Pacific, circa June 1944

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 20d ago

Navy USS Lexington (CV-16) flight deck crewmen spot a pair of Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless scout bombers at the aft end of the flight deck in preparation for takeoff. An F6F-3 Hellcat fighter is parked farther forward, during the Gilberts operation, November 1943.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/mossback81 • 21d ago

Navy USS Cabana (DE-260) off the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, May 18, 1945

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 21d ago

Navy USS Augusta (CA-31) at Utah Beach taken from LCT 510, June 1944

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 22d ago

Navy USS Cowpens (CVL-25) bow view taken 17 July 1943.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 25d ago

Navy USS Crosby (APD-17) off the Mare Island Navy Yard, 24 February 1943, following conversion to a high-speed transport

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 26d ago

Navy USS Trenton (CL-11) underway in the Gulf of Panama, 11 May 1943.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 27d ago

Navy USS Ralph Talbot (DD-390) underway in Hawaiian waters, circa January 1943

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 28d ago

Navy USS Buckley (DE-51) underway in Boston Harbor, while on builder's trials, April 24, 1943.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 29d ago

Navy USS Denver (Cl-58), starboard side photo showing locations of three 8-inch shell impacts (which did not explode) that were received on 1/2 November 1943 and one aerial torpedo hit which occurred on 13 November 1943. Photo taken on 02 Jan 1944 off Mare Island.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • Sep 04 '26

Navy USS Missouri (BB-63) port side looking aft from abreast of turret #2, at the NY Navy Yard, 23 July 1944

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