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| Date: | 04 16 1944 |
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| Description: | The launching office above a Pacific Fleet aircraft carrier gives the "go" signal to the pilot. This photograph is from a scrapbook compiled by Philip F. L... |
| Date: | 12 07 1941 |
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| Description: | A tug or utility boat in the foreground and a battleship sit in Pearl Harbor with smoke rising in the background from the Japanese attack. |
| Date: | 12 07 1941 |
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| Description: | Sailors clear the stern of the battleship USS West Virginia in berth F-6 at Pearl Harbor, most likely after it was hit by at least a few of the 7 to... |
| Date: | 12 07 1941 |
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| Description: | The remains of the USS Cassin and the USS Downes floating in front of the USS Pennsylvania in dock at Pearl Harbor. On the left is th... |
| Date: | 12 07 1941 |
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| Description: | Sailors in a motor launch attempt a rescue of survivors from the water alongside the sunken battleship USS West Virginia during or shortly after the... |
| Date: | 04 04 1945 |
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| Description: | Two men working together to move a box marked "Human Blood" at Buckner Bay, Okinawa, Japan. They are aboard a tank landing ship pontoon float. One man is w... |
| Date: | 03 1945 |
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| Description: | Surviving crew members of the USS Franklin watching an amateur vaudeville on their hanger deck, seven says after their disaster. The USS Franklin... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | A body on a stretcher is lying on the deck of the USS "Samaritan." The body is covered by a blanket, except for an arm which has a small tattoo. Behind the... |
| Date: | 12 26 1943 |
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| Description: | Elevated view from aboard ship looking down on a soldier in a turret operating a range finder. These warships were participating in the heavy bombardment o... |
| Date: | 12 26 1943 |
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| Description: | Navigation instruments on an American cruiser were checked by Lieutenant Commander Leonard Meyer of Appleton. Three other crew members are nearby. The crui... |
| Date: | 12 26 1943 |
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| Description: | Elevated view looking down towards deck of an American cruiser leaving the base heading for the bombardment of Cape Gloucester, New Britain, New Guinea (pr... |
| Date: | 12 26 1943 |
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| Description: | Seaman 2nd Class Jerry Burg (left) of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Seaman 2nd Class Harold Dawson of Toledo, Ohio, man the plane spotting station on an Americ... |
| Date: | 12 26 1943 |
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| Description: | Mopping up after the bombardment of Cape Gloucester while the American cruiser returns to base are: (left to right, all shirtless) Seaman 2nd Class Dominic... |
| Date: | 12 26 1943 |
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| Description: | Two sailors on an American cruiser returning to base after the bombardment of Cape Gloucester. The bombardment took place before the marine landing. One sa... |
| Date: | 01 02 1944 |
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| Description: | Seaman First Class Thomas Veater (shirtless) of Louzerne, Pennsylvania, on a LST (Landing Ship, Tank) after the landing at Saidor, New Guinea (present day ... |
| Date: | 01 12 1944 |
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| Description: | View of a PT (Patrol Torpedo) boat from another PT boat, off of the north coast of New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). PT (Patrol Torpedo) boats wer... |
| Date: | 02 05 1944 |
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| Description: | General view of Port Moresby Harbor from road, New Guinea (present day Papua New Guinea). A jeep is on the road on the left. Several soldiers are near a sh... |
| Date: | 1945 |
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| Description: | Robert Doyle, Journal war correspondent, took his wire recorder aboard the battleship Wisconsin while it was part of Admiral Halsey's 3rd fleet off ... |
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