USS Savannah hit by a German Fritz-X radio-controlled glide-bomb off Salerno. Sep 1943.
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A bit of a swell... life on bard an US Navy escort carrier in WW2...
OK, now that's funny. Those guys on decked actring like nothing unsual here, move along.
They’ve definitely got their “sea legs.”
1941 International Harvester A14 “Shop Mule”, still sitting where it was last parked, on the flight deck of USS Hornet.........17,500 feet down at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean. Hornet was sunk in the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands in October 1942. She was finally located in 2019 by a survey team led by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
Amazing you can still read "International Harvester" on the side.
looks like you could just hose it off and drive away.
looks like you could just hose it off and drive away.
I’m guessing the lack of oxygen is the reason for the lack of deterioration.
USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay for the surrender ceremony.
A rare photo of a unique US Navy heavy cruiser. Can anyone identify her?
Nope.
Any clue what year it was taken?
And are those radar pods in the back?
Any clue what year it was taken?
And are those radar pods in the back?
Photo taken in 1946
The USS designation along with the missing guns in "A" turret really threw me for quite a while.
Finally w/only 2 guns in the "B" turret it started to move me in a different direction.
Pretty warship.
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Finally w/only 2 guns in the "B" turret it started to move me in a different direction.
Pretty warship.
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German cruiser Prinz Eugen - Wikipedia
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Crazy story of how she came to be on the active USN list for a year LOL, with a large number of her German crew still onboard to operate the various systems.
This is in port Boston, in January 1946. She appears to have the guns still mounted in the forward turret.
This is in port Boston, in January 1946. She appears to have the guns still mounted in the forward turret.
At sea off the Massachusetts coast in 1946. Appears to have all her guns. The first photo I posted is in the Panama Canal, I suspect some of her equipment was removed before she went to Bikini Atoll to get blown up in the atomic bomb test. Maybe that's what happened to the guns in the forward turret.
"...The guns from turret Anton were removed while in Philadelphia in February (1946)". - Wiki
This was after the USA "won" her as a "war prize."
Off hand I couldn't find any particular reason why this was done.
This was after the USA "won" her as a "war prize."
Off hand I couldn't find any particular reason why this was done.
Escort Carrier USS Thetis Bay taking PBY Catalinas, F6F Hellcats, and one J2F Duck from Hawaii to Alameda for repairs, Jul 8 1944.
Had to go look it up. J2F Duck.
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Torpedo damage to the bow of the USS St Louis (CL-49) sustained from a torpedo hit during the Battle of Kolombangara.
Photo was taken on 19 August 1943 at Mare Island.
Photo was taken on 19 August 1943 at Mare Island.