Photos WW2 US Forces

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"Cautiously advancing through the jungle, while on patrol in Japanese territory off the Numa-Numa Trail, this member of the 93rd Infantry Division is among the first Negro foot soldiers to go into action in the South Pacific theater.", 1st May,1944

 

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USS Tennessee underway in Puget Sound, Washington, on 12 May 1943, after modernisation. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

 

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Salvage crews work to raise the minelayer USS Oglala (CM-4) which was sunk during Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Following completion of salvage and initial repairs at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, she left for the West Coast December 23rd 1942.

As rebuilt, USS Oglala (ARG-1) is seen here in Southwestern Pacific area in 1944 and painted in camouflage Measure 32, Design 6d.
Striken from Navy list in 1946 and mothballed until 1965, Ex-Oglala (ARG-1) who was built in 1907, met her faith and was scrapped on December the same year at the Joffe Brothers Shipbreaking Yard inRichmond, California.

 

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"A Craig Field Cadet in the Advanced Flying School climbing into the cockpit of his training ship just before going on an altitude mission into the skies over Selma, Alabama."
Image thanks to Alabama Department of Archives and History

 

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2nd Battalion, 27th Marines landing on Iwo Jima.

 

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18th May, 1945. USS Missouri moored in Apra Harbor, Guam, Mariana Islands, 18 May 1945. Note hospital ship USS Hope behind Missouri and two Casablanca-class escort carriers at right.

Battleship USS Idaho in Hvalfjord, Iceland, October 1941

USS San Francisco (CA-38) off Mare Island Navy Yard, 14 Dec 1942, after being damaged in action off Guadalcanal. Circles mark enemy hits.

 

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USS San Francisco (CA-38) firing her main guns at Wake Island during a USN raid, October 1943

USS Jack C. Robinson (APD-72) at Orange, Texas, 2 February 1945 (Commissioning day) wearing camouflage measure 31/20l.

USS Jack C. Robinson (APD-72), ex-DE-671, was a United States Navy high-speed transport in commission from 1945 to 1946.

 

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USS Alabama, March 1943 in the Atlantic. National Archives photo # N-3257 courtesy of Pieter Bakels.
Photo i.d. courtesy of David C. Nilsen, CTR USA, TRADOC.

Task Group 38.3 enters Ulithi anchorage in column, 12 December 1944, while returning from strikes on targets in the Philippines. Ships are (from front): Langley (CVL-27); Ticonderoga (CV-14); Washington (BB-56); North Carolina (BB-55); South Dakota (BB-57); Santa Fe (CL-60); Biloxi (CL-80); Mobile (CL-63) and Oakland (CL-95). National Archives Catalog 80-G-301351.

Sailors sleep at their quad 40mm gun position on the USS New Jersey (BB-62). Dec 1944

 

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Sailors bow their heads as they follow the prayers of a chaplain on the deck of a warship somewhere at sea on Christmas, 1943. While his shipmates pray, one man on duty (lower left) keeps his ears alert. Date: December 25th, 1943

Columns of smoke rise from USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) after being hit by two kamikaze planes, as seen from USS Essex (CV-9), 11 May 1945. Destroyer alongside is USS Charles S. Sperry (DD-697).

An LCVP (Landing Craft Vehicle Personnel) dispenses a smoke screen to conceal the USS LST-826 at anchor in the background before landing; Okinawa, 1945

USS Washington running post-overhaul trial Puget Sound, Washington, on 10 September 1945.

 

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US Army Air Force bombers over Germany under heavy flak fire.

 

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In addition to torpedoes and the deck gun, the Balao-class submarine USS Blenny (SS-324) used a shotgun to sink Japanese vessels during WWII. Armed with a 12 gauge, the sub's boarding party sank several enemy junks by blasting holes in the bottom of the boats. #SubSunday