Photos Taken in Pacific Ocean | World War II Database

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Battleships Iowa and Indiana underway during the Marshall Islands Campaign, 24 Jan 1944; note Camouflage Measure 32 Design 1B; cropped photo of NARA 80-G-235080	Battleships Iowa and Indiana underway during the Marshall Islands Campaign, 24 Jan 1944; note ships with Camouflage Measure 32 Design 1B and wing of SB2C Helldiver aircraft in foreground	Forward guns and superstructure of USS Iowa underway during the Marshall Islands Campaign alongside USS Indiana, 24 Jan 1944.	USS Intrepid under way 26 Jan 1944 on her way to launch strikes against Truk Atoll (now Chuuk). Note the forward flight deck filled SBD Dauntless and TBF Avenger aircraft and one F4U Corsair on the outrigger sponson.

Battleship Indiana en route to attack Taroa Island airfield, Maloelap Atoll, Marshall Islands, 27 Jan 1944; photo 1 of 2	Lieutenant (jg) E. S. Taylor being transferred from USS Murray to USS Coral Sea, 30 Jan 1944	Burial at sea of Seaman Millard Ree Nieman who died of septicemia aboard USS North Carolina on 15 Feb 1944.	F4U-2 Corsair night fighters with Night Fighting Squadron VF(N)-101 lining up for an exercise flight aboard USS Intrepid as the ship sailed south from Hawaii toward the Marshall Islands, Jan-Feb 1944. Photo 1 of 2.

F4U-2 Corsair night fighters with Night Fighting Squadron VF(N)-101 lining up for an exercise flight aboard USS Intrepid as the ship sailed south from Hawaii toward the Marshall Islands, Jan-Feb 1944. Photo 2 of 2.	TBM Avenger of Torpedo Squadron VT-10 aboard USS Enterprise with machine gun holes in the wing following air-to-air combat with a Japanese Kawasaki Ki-61 “Tony” fighter off Truk, Caroline Islands, 16 Feb 1944.	Tracer rounds within intensive anti-aircraft fire from the Light Carrier USS Belleau Wood aimed at a Japanese G4M “Betty” bomber attacking at wave-top level off the Mariana Islands, 22 Feb 1944	USS Yorktown (Essex-class) at sea north of Eniwetok en route Majuro, Marshall Islands, 24 Feb 1944.

Sailors with unusual haircuts received during a Line Cross Ceremony aboard USS Saratoga, Mar 1944	Port side view of the USS Bunker Hill while at sea off the Palau Islands, 27 Mar 1944. Note the Measure 32, Design 6A paint scheme, only two carriers were painted this way.	Ordinancemen working to load a Mark 10 aerial mine into the bomb bay of a TBF-1C of Torpedo Squadron VT-16 aboard USS Lexington (Essex-class), 29 Mar 1944 off the Palau Islands.	Burial at sea services aboard USS Lexington (Essex-class) following action around Palau, 2 Apr 1944.

Destroyer USS Knapp with battleship USS Alabama of Task Group 58.3 steaming from New Guinea toward Truk, 28 Apr 1944.	F6F-3 Hellcats of Fighting Squadron 16 (VF-16) landing aboard the USS Lexington (Essex-class), north of Manus, 28 Apr 1944. Note battleship USS South Dakota crossing Lexington’s wake.	Wallet certificate issued to AOM2c Neil Wirick of Torpedo Squadron VT-27 aboard the USS Princeton on the occasion of crossing the 180th meridian, which happened on 1 Jun 1944 as Princeton steamed from Hawaii to Majuro.	Photo from an SBD Dauntless moments after taking off from the USS Lexington (Essex-class) for strikes against Saipan in the Mariana Islands, 13 Jun 1944