Photos Navies Of All Nations

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USN:
Wickes-class destroyers fitting out at the New York Shipbuilding Corporation yard at Camden, New Jersey, May 1919. 111 units of this class were built between 1917-21 with many of them serving in WW2 with 13 being lost

USS Lexington (CV-2), USS Saratoga (CV-3) and USS Langley (CV-1) moored at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard, Bremerton, Washington, 1929

USS Lexington (CV-2), flight personnel handling torpedoes, prior to World War II.

 

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Italy:
Horizon class destroyer Andrea Doria (D 553) at Taranto with Carlo Bergamini-class frigate Luigi Rizzo (F 595) in the background, April 2023.

Paolo Thaon di Revel-class offshore patrol vessel Francesco Morosini (P431) coming into Karachi, Pakistan. September 5, 2023

 

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France:
Georges Leygues-class anti-submarine destroyer Latouche-Tréville (D646), 2009

 

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Germany/USN:
Heavy cruiser USS Prinz Eugen (IX-300) off the coast of Massachusetts, 1946

 

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Russia:
Project 995A Borei-A class SSBN Knyaz Vladimir (K-549)

Project 885 Yasen class cruise missile submarine Severodvinsk (K-560)

 

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Germany:
Cleaning the 28 cm main armament of battleship Gneisenau

 

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Japan & Germany:
Destroyers Kirishima (DDG-174), Asahi (DD-119), Chōkai (DDG-176), Inazuma (DD-105) and frigate Bayern (F 217) sail in formation during ANNUALEX 2021

 

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USN:
Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Rafael Peralta (DDG-115) The battle flag displays an Aztec war god and says "Lava Dogs", nickname of the 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines (1/3), in which the namesake was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross. 5 Sept 2023

CITATION:

The President of the United States of America takes pride in presenting the Navy Cross (Posthumously) to Sergeant Rafael Peralta, United States Marine Corps, for extraordinary heroism while serving as Platoon Guide with 1st Platoon, Company A, First Battalion, Third Marines, Regimental Combat Team 7, FIRST Marine Division, in action against Anti-Coalition Forces in support of Operation AL FAJAR, in Fallujah, Iraq, on 15 November 2004. Clearing scores of houses in the previous three days, Sergeant Peralta asked to join an under-strength squad and volunteered to stand post the night of 14 November, allowing fellow Marines more time to rest. The following morning, during search and attack operations, while clearing the seventh house of the day, the point man opened a door to a back room and immediately came under intense, close-range automatic weapons fire from multiple insurgents. The squad returned fire, wounding one insurgent. While attempting to maneuver out of the line of fire, Sergeant Peralta was shot and fell mortally wounded. After the initial exchange of gunfire, the insurgents broke contact, throwing a fragmentation grenade as they fled the building. The grenade came to rest near Sergeant Peralta's head. Without hesitation and with complete disregard for his own personal safety, Sergeant Peralta reached out and pulled the grenade to his body, absorbing the brunt of the blast and shielding fellow Marines only feet away. Sergeant Peralta succumbed to his wounds. By his undaunted courage, intrepid fighting spirit, and unwavering devotion to duty, Sergeant Peralta reflected great credit upon himself and upheld the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and the United States Naval Service.

 

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Spain:
Álvaro de Bazán-class frigate Mendez Nunez (F104) leaving Cartagena, Spain. Sept 4, 2023

 

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USN:
Cannon class destroyer escort USS Cannon (DE-99) underway in Delaware Bay on 5 September 1943

A PT boat comes alongside Tacoma-class frigate USS Gallup (PF-47) awaiting further orders after the landings at Biak, Schouten Islands, 17 August 1944. The weapon in the centre of the image looks to be a 37mm cannon and ammo feed system from a P-39.

 

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USN:
Atlantic Ocean (Sept. 5, 2003) -- Left to right, Spruance-class destroyer USS Thorn (DD 988), Arleigh Burke class guided missile destroyers USS Cole (DDG 67), and USS Gonzalez (DDG 66), members of the Enterprise Carrier Strike Group, perform divisional tactics while underway in the Atlantic Ocean.

 

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Japan:
Mogami-class frigate Kumano (FFM-2) Sept 4, 2023

 

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Spain:
España-class battleship Jaime I firing her secondary armament, off the coast of Spain c. 1932

 

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France:
Battleship Jean Bart running sea trials in 1949

 

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USN:
Training ship USS Hartford near Marblehead, MA, c. 1904.

 

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USN:
Battleship USS Wisconsin (BB-64) coming out of mothballs, 1986

 

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Germany:
Sachsen class (Type 124) air-defense frigate Hamburg (F-220)

 

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USN:
Zumwalt-class guided-missile destroyer USS Michael Monsoor (DDG-1001) during trials 2017-2018

 

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France:
Aquitaine-class frigate Bretagne (D655) in Bergen, Norway last week

 

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Russia:
Project 22350 Admiral Gorshkov class frigate Admiral Gorshkov docks in Durban, South Africa, en route to scheduled naval exercises with the South African and Chinese navies. Feb 2023