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[johnbr]

USS Indianapolis

 

[michaelmaltby]

Google search, Saipan

 

[Wurger]

A crashed Fiat CR.42,Libya 1940

the pic source: the net

 

[johnbr]

Enterprise turns into the wind to recover planes while steaming in the Pacific, circa June 1941. Note her natural wooden flight deck stain and the Measure 1 camouflage paint scheme. The following month the ships company will stain her flight deck blue in an experimental camouflage plan that will give her a unique deck stripe pattern.

Commanding Officers Date Assumed Command
Capt. Newton H. White Jr. 12 May 1938
Capt. Charles A. Pownall 21 December 1938
Capt. Archibald H. Douglas 29 May 1940
Capt. Charles A. Pownall 29 May 1940
Capt. George D. Murray 21 March 1941
Capt. Arthur C. Davis 30 June 1942
Capt. Osborne B. Hardison 21 October 1942
Capt. Carlos W. Wieber 7 April 1943
Capt. Samuel P. Ginder 16 April 1943
Capt. Matthias B. Gardner 7 November 1943
Capt. Thomas J. Hamilton 10 July 1944
Capt. Cato D. Glover Jr. 29 July 1944
Capt. Grover B. H. Hall 14 December 1944
Capt. William L. Rees 25 September 1945
Capt. Francis E. Bardwell 20 February 1946
Cmdr. Conrad W. Craven 10 June 1946
Cmdr. Lewis F. Davis 31 January 1947

 

[Wurger]

USS Mustin DD-413

the pic source: the net.

 

[fastmongrel]

Armoured Recovery M3 Lee showing dummy main gun

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[johnbr]

A plane captures this overhead view of the ship moored at Ford Island, 12 July 1942. Note the Wildcat on the barge alongside aft, the antitorpedo nets, and the camouflaged buildings on the island.

 

[johnbr]

An F6F-3 of VF-2, Ens. Byron M. Johnson, crashes into the ship's port 20 millimeter gun gallery while landing and the Hellcat's belly fuel tank erupts into flames, 10 November 1943. Lt. Walter L. Chewning Jr., USNR, the catapult officer, scrambles onto the burning Hellcat to pull Johnson from the fire

Flight deck crewmen extinguish the plane's blaze, 10 November 1943. Johnson escapes without serious injuries, but sailors push the damaged Hellcat over the side and the ship continues toward the Gilberts.

 

[johnbr]

Japanese battleship Musashi is hit, during attacks by Task Force 38 aircraft in the Sibuyan Sea.

 

[johnbr]

NH 62582 Ten-Go Operation, April 1945 Japanese battleship Yamato blows up, following massive attacks by U.S. Navy carrier planes north of Okinawa, 7 April 1945. An escorting destroyer is at left. Photographed from a USS Yorktown (CV-10) plane.

 

[johnbr]

Japanese battleship Yamato maneuvers while under heavy air attack by Task Force 58 planes in the Inland Sea, 19 March 1945. She was not seriously damaged in these attacks. Photographed from a USS Hornet (CV-12) plane.

 

[johnbr]

kinawa, Ryukyus Islands, April 1945
Caption: Japanese cruiser YAHAGI under air attack during the YAMATO sortie, 7 April 1945.

 

[johnbr]

Gunfire, Bomb and Kamikaze Damage Including Losses in Action 17 October, 1941 to 15 August, 1945

 

[johnbr]

U.S.S. JOHNSTON

Loss in Action
25 October 1944

Class FLETCHER (DD445) Length (O.A.) 376 Ft. 6 In.
Commissioned October 1943 Beam (Extreme) 39 Ft. 7 In.
Displacement Draft (Estimated Mean Before Damage) 12 Ft. 6 In.
(Standard) 2050 Tons
(Before Damage) 2550 Tons
References:

(a) Senior Surviving Officer, U.S.S. JOHNSTON ltr. DD557/A16-3, Serial 04 of 14 November 1944 (Action Report)
(b) Senior Surviving Officer, U.S.S. JOHNSTON ltr. A16-3/L11-1, Serial 01 of 10 November 1944 (Loss of Ship Report)
(c) Senior Surviving Officer, U.S.S. JOHNSTON ltr. A16-3, Serial 03 of 13 November 1944 (Damage Report)
(d) ComCarDiv 25 Special Action Report of 29 October 1944, Serial 00100
(e) United States Strategic Bombing Survey Interrogation #47 (Ex-V.Adm. Kurita, IJN) 17 October 1945

 

[johnbr]

U.S.S. ALBERT W. GRANT (DD649)

Gunfire Damage Surigao Strait 25 October 1944

Class FLETCHER (DD445) Length (O.A.) 376 Ft. 6 In.
Commissioned December 1943 Beam (Extreme) 39 Ft. 7 In.
Displacement Draft (Mean, Before Damage) 13" Ft. 8 In.
(Standard) 2050 Tons
(Before Damage) 2925 Tons
References:
(a) C.O. ALBERT W. GRANT ltr. DD649/A16-3, Serial 0106 of 11 November 1944 (Action Report)
(b) C.O. ALBERT W. GRANT ltr. DD649/A16-3, Serial 0107 of 14 November 1944 (War Damage Report)
(c) OINC Repair Unit 39 ltr. RU39/L11-1, Serial 265 of 20 November 1944 (Report of Repairs at Naval Base, Navy 3205)
(d) COMDT NYMI ltr. DD649/L11-1, Serial 360-718388 of 13 March 1945 (Report of Damage and Repairs at Navy Yard)

 

[johnbr]

U.S.S. AARON WARD

Loss in Action
Off Guadalcanal
7 April 1943
Class BRISTOL (DD483) Length (O.A.) 348 Ft. 3 In.
Commissioned March 1942 Beam (Extreme) 36 Ft. 0 In.
Displacement Draft (Estimated Mean Before Damage) 13 Ft. 0 In.
(Standard) 1630 Tons
(Before Damage) 2380 Tons
References:
(a) C.O. AARON WARD ltr. DD483/A16-3, Serial 0025 of 16 April 1943 (Action Report with endorsements)
(b) C.O. ORTOLAN ltr. ASR5/A4-3/A9 of 11 April 1943 (Action Report.
(c) VIREO (ATO144) War Diary for 7 April 1943

 

[johnbr]

U.S.S. SHUBRICK
Off Palermo
4 August 1943

Class BRISTOL (DD453) Length (O.A.) 348 Ft. 3 In.
Commissioned February 1943 Beam (Extreme) 36 Ft. 1 In.
Displacement Draft (Mean, Before Damage) 13 Ft. 6 In.
(Standard) 1630 Tons
(Before Damage) 2540 Tons
References:
(a) C.O. SHUBRICK ltr. DD639/L11-1, Serial 031 of 15 September 1943 (War Damage Report)
(b) Director Naval Construction (W) British Admiralty Delegation ltr. No. S.R. 796/44 of 11 February 1944 (Temporary Repairs at Malta)
(c) COMDT NY NYK Damage Report of 18 October 1943

 

[johnbr]

Thu, May 13, 1943

Ships of task force 18 shelling Japanese Facilities on Kolombangara and New Georgia as seen from USS NICHOLAS (DD-449). Note her #35" /38 mount and wake.

 

[johnbr]

USS Alabama (BB-60) Ship's forward 16/45 guns train to starboard during a North Atlantic battle practice. Photographed during her shakedown period, circa December 1942 - January 1943. Note: Ice and snow on turrets and decks.

 

[Milosh]

Great set of posts johnbr.