USN:
31 December 1941, Newport News Shipbuilding facility. Construction of USS Indiana (BB-58) is speeding up. She was launched 3.5 months ago and will enter active service in 4 months.
USS Santee (CVE-29) (originally launched as AO-29, then ACV-29). Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless scout-bombers and Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat fighters on the ship’s flight deck during Operation Torch, the November 1942
Casablanca-class escort carriers USS Kasaan Bay (CVE-69) seen from USS Mission Bay (CVE-59) and USS Tulagi (CVE-72) following, 31 May 1944. The carriers had sailed from New York and were ferrying aircraft to North Africa. All wear MS 32 Design 4A camouflage scheme. Aircraft in the foreground are different models of Republic P-47 Thunderbolt. 3 aircraft right on the stern are P-51 Mustangs
22 April 1944, Humboldt Bay, Indonesia. Light cruisers USS Boise (CL-47) (on the left) and USS Phoenix (CL-46) provide fire support for amphibious landings by the US I Corps at the very start of the Western New Guinea campaign.
Light cruiser USS Bremerton (CA-130) in San Francisco, 1945
Australia:
August 2017, the first of the RAN's new Aegis-equipped AWDs, HMAS Hobart, approaches Sydney Harbour for the first time prior to being commissioned in September.
RN:
HM submarines HMS Tigris and HMS Tuna lying alongside the depot ship HMS Titania. December 1941
Tigris had a quite active career sinking roughly 17,000 tons of shipping as well as the submarines Porfido and Michele Bianchi . On the 18 February 1943 she left Malta for her 18th patrol however when given the order to redeploy to Algiers on the 6 March there was no reply, by the 10th there was still no answer so was declared "overdue".
Tuna is likely best known for her involvement in Operation Frankton, also known as "The Cockleshell raid". Other that this she would see little success only sinking the submarine U-644 , the Catapult ship Ostmark and a tug boat however at the time she was erroneously credited with the sinking of another two subs. She would be sold for scrap shortly after the war and broken up in 1946.
RN:
HMS Victorious decommissioning on 13 March 1968. This photo shows the decommissioning pennant flying. Note the variety of aircraft as she approaches ‘frigate alley’ in Plymouth.
USN:
USS Manchester (CL-83) rearms along side the ammunition ship USS Paricutin (AE-18). The Manchester risked destruction in Wonsan Harbor for being in range of enemy forts during rearming. Feb 27, 1951
Sweden:
Spring 1930, Off Karlskrona, Sweden. Coastal defence ship HswMS Dristigheten lives her second life as a seaplane tender. She carries Heinkel HD 16 torpedo bomber (left) and HD 19 fighter.
USN:
USS Saratoga after having been hit by a kamikaze, 21 February 1945
Six Japanese planes scored five bomb hits on the carrier in three minutes; three of the aircraft also struck the carrier. Saratoga's flight deck forward was wrecked, her starboard side was holed twice and large fires were started in her hangar deck; she lost 123 of her crew dead or missing as well as 192 wounded. Thirty-six of her aircraft were destroyed. Another attack two hours later further damaged her flight deck. Slightly over an hour later, the fires were under control, and Saratoga was able to recover six fighters.
USSR:
1970s, The Red Banner Pacific Fleet. Guards seamen of a missile boat (left to right): Midshipman A. Krasman, II Class Petty Officer V. Melentyev and Seaman G. Fedotov.
Germany: Tirpitz officers walk the deck, while en route to Norway, 1940
Fall 1948, Håkøya island, Norway. Private Norwegian company Høvding Skipsopphugging dismantles the wreck of battleship Tirpitz. It will take nearly 10 years to do the job.
USN:
March 1943, Naval Station Pearl Harbor. Parbuckle salvage of USS Oklahoma (BB-37) is underway; the ship will be positioned upright on June 16 and refloated on November 05.
USS Iowa (BB-61) entering Majuro on 4 February 1944, taken by the USS Natoma Bay CVE-62).
11 April 1945, 2:43 pm, South-East of Okinawa. 19-year old Japanese kamikaze pilot Setsuo Ishino crashes his Mitsubishi A6M5 fighter into the starboard side of battleship USS Missouri (in the centre of the photo) without notable consequences.
USS Tennessee (BB-43) in Buckner Bay, Okinawa, 17 July 1945.
USN:
Aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, guided missile destroyer USS Dewey and attack submarine USS Seawolf sail in formation while aircraft fly above during operations in the Pacific Ocean, June 22, 2021. Photo By: Navy Petty Officer 3rd Class Haydn Smith. DoD Photo
ARABIAN SEA (June 26, 2021) The guided-missile destroyer USS Halsey (DDG 97) operates alongside the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), not pictured, during a RAS
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