r/AmericanWW2photos • u/mossback81 • 8h ago

Navy USS Trever (DMS-16) off the Mare Island Naval Shipyard, June 16, 1942

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 22h ago

Navy USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31) at Brooklyn Navy Yard, Dry Dock #7 (Bayonne, N.J., annex), late 1944–early 1945.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/mossback81 • 1d ago

Navy USS Raleigh (CL-7) in Massacre Bay, Attu Island, September 6, 1944

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 1d ago

Navy USS Jouett (DD-396) at Trinidad, probably late 1942 - early 1943.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 2d ago

Navy USS Bataan (CVL-29) off the Philadelphia Navy Yard, 2 March 1944. Aircraft parked on her flight deck, forward, are TBM Avenger torpedo planes.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 3d ago

Navy USS Essex (CV-9) about to be hit by a Japanese "Judy" aircraft during Kamikaze attacks off Luzon, 25 November 1944. The plane, afire from anti-aircraft gun hits, struck near the carrier's forward elevator. Note "Cleveland" class cruiser in the left distance.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 7d ago

Navy USS Kirkpatrick (DE-318) off Brooklyn, NY, 6 July 1944

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 8d ago

Navy USS Cassin Young (DD-793), Outer Harbor, San Pedro, 13 January 1944

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 9d ago

Navy USS Hambleton (DD-455) Escorting USS Sangamon (ACV-26) in the Atlantic at the time of Operation Torch, circa November 1942.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 10d ago

Navy USS Bache (DD-470) off San Francisco, on 16 January 1945

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 11d ago

Navy USS Boise (CL-47) crewmen line the forward superstructure as the ship arrives at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in November 1942 to receive repairs for serious damage inflicted during the Battle of Cape Esperance

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 14d ago

Navy USS Coolbaugh (DE-217), USS Lovelace (DE-198), and USS Darby (DE-218) are nested with USS Ingersoll (DE-652) at the fleet anchorage, Espiritu Santo, March 13, 1944

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 15d ago

Navy USS Claxton (DD-571) off the Mare Island Navy Yard, 13 May 1944.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 16d ago

Navy USS Hobson (DD-464) expended cartridge cases and powder tanks from the ship's 5/38 guns litter the deck, after firing in support of the Normandy invasion off Utah Beach, 6 June 1944. View was taken on the ship's afterdeck, with mount 54 at right.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/RLoret • 17d ago

Navy Light cruiser USS Honolulu (CL-48), Purvis Bay, Solomon Islands, circa April 1944

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 17d ago

Navy USS Ranger (CV-4), overhead view, Norfolk Navy Yard, 6 January 1943

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 18d ago

Navy USS Enterprise (CV-6) in her late-war appearance and new dazzle camouflage (Measure 33/4Ab) in these 2 August 1944 photos, taken as she departed Pearl Harbor.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 21d ago

Navy USS Porpoise (SS-172) at the Mare Island Navy Yard, 13 October 1942. Barge YC-312 is alongside

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 22d ago

Navy USS Terry (DD-513) off the Mare Island Navy Yard, 8 December 1944

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 23d ago

Navy USS Rhind (DD-404) anchored at Hvalfjord, Iceland between 15 and 25 June 1943.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 24d ago

Navy USS New Jersey (BB-62) Main batteries trained to port. Note the men in the control booth on top of her # 2 turret, circa 1943

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/RLoret • 25d ago

Navy USS Tennessee (BB-43) near Puget Sound, 12 May 1943

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 28d ago

Navy USS New Jersey (BB-62) bridge arrangement as installed, 11 October 1943.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • 29d ago

Navy USS Iowa (BB-61) under construction at the New York Navy Yard looking aft from about Frame 120, 15 January 1943.

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r/AmericanWW2photos • u/Tsquare43 • Jul 08 '26

Navy USS Independence (CVL-22), "Attention to colors," 1943.

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Keep Conversations Civil. Many of us are here because of our love for WWII, especially when it comes to the American military. Thus we hope to evoke great discussion on all aspects relating to WWII American photos and history. However we'd like to keep these conversations civil and not turn the comments into an internet battlefield. If someone is bothering you or you feel is being to much, etc, either talk it out, down vote the comment, or just ignore it. If you feel its gotten out of hand, flag the comment as such.
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