RN:
Forward superstructure of HMS King George V, January 1941, showing AA weaponry, directors and hangars
Modernised battleship HMS Queen Elizabeth, post refit, Hampton Roads, 2 June 1943
T-class destroyer steams next to the U.S. aircraft carrier USS
Wasp (CV-18) in August 1945. The destroyer's pennant number (D4?) is obscured by fuel oil. Five T-class destroyers and the carrier HMS
Indefatigable (R10) were part of Task Group 38.3 in August 1945: HMS
Teazer (D45), HMS
Tenacious (D46), HMS
Termagant (D47), HMS
Terpsichore (D48), and HMS
Troubridge (D49). The two funnel rings identify the ships as part of the 24th destroyer flotilla (all T-class destroyers). As the vertical stripe identifies the division leader in the flotilla (the second senior commander), the destroyer is most probably
HMS Terpsichore (D48). In the distance are a long-hull
Essex-class carrier, probably USS
Randolph (CV-15, flagship RAdm Gerald F. Bogan), and the battleship USS
North Carolina (BB-55).