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USS Wasp (CV-7) at anchor in Casco Bay, Maine, 25 March 1942
A radio-controlled Radioplane TDD-1 target drone is catapulted from battleship USS New York. Chesapeake Bay, VA, USA. September 1943.
USS Bataan CVL-29, in the Panama Canal heading east. Oct 1945
USS Tinian (CVE-123) went cradle-to-grave in mothballs. Launched about 48 hours after the Japanese surrender, the US Navy quietly declared the ship “accepted” without ceremony and then sailed the USS Tinian straight into the mothball fleet.
The scoreboard of USS Lexington (CV16) at the end of WW2
Aerial view of the U.S. Navy battleship USS Missouri (BB-63), taken during the Japanese Surrender Ceremony on 2 September 1945. The photo was taken from U.S. Army Air Forces Boeing B-29 Superfortress. The Fletcher-class destroyer alongside is probalby either USS Nicholas (DD-449) or USS Taylor (DD-468) from Destroyer Squadron 21, used to transport the attendees of the ceremony.
Texas National Guard P-51 Mustangs flying over battleship USS Texas (1948)
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A perfect smoke ring is formed by a two gun salvo from the USS Richard B Anderson's forward 5"/38 cal. gun mount. Anderson fired this mission with the aid of aerial spotters during an emergency mission on the Batangan peninsula, Vietnam, 1966.
USS Hornet (CV-12) August 1969 after Apollo 11 recovery operations, Pearl Harbor
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