Carrier warfare

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Navy TBF pilots walking toward their waiting planes on a Task Force 58 carrier for a strike against Guam in 1944
506.Photograph. 'File Number: TR-10955 January 23, 1945 Heading for Guam Navy TBF pilots walking toward their waiting...
Navy warplanes prepare to take off as their carrier heads about into the wind during a recent battle mission in the Pacific in September 1944
433.Photograph. Grumman TBF Avengers'File Number: 246959 September 26, 1944 Into the wind Navy warplanes prepare to...
Planes preparing for takeoff on the USS Kitkun Bay, Philippine Sea
Photograph. Planes preparing for takeoff from the USS Kitkun Bay (CVE-71); Japanese bombers are attacking the USS White...
Sailors fighting fire on the deck of the USS Hornet off the coast of the Santa Cruz Islands, 1942
Photograph. Sailors fighting fire on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-8); debris litters the deck....
Smoke billowing from a US aircraft carrier, Philippine Sea
Photograph. Smoke billowing from a United States aircraft carrier; a Japanese bomb is exploding in the ocean in the...
Smoke billowing from the Japanese aircraft carrier Shōhō, Coral Sea, 1942
Photograph, aerial. Smoke billowing from the damaged Japanese aircraft carrier Shōhō. Official caption on front: "Navy...
Smoke rising from the USS Lexington, Coral Sea, 1942
Photograph. Smoke billowing from the damaged aircraft carrier USS Lexington (CV-2); bi-plane or seaplane wings are...
Smoke rising from the USS Lexington, Coral Sea, 1942
Photograph. Large cloud of smoke rising from an explosion aboard the USS Lexington (CV-2). Official caption on front: "...
Smoke rising from the USS Wasp off the coast of Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, 1942
Photograph. Smoke rising from the burning USS Wasp (CV-7). Official caption on front: "Death of the Wasp after taking...
Smoke rising from the USS Yorktown of the coast of Midway, 1942
Photograph. Smoke rising from an explosion on the USS Yorktown (CV-5); antiaircraft flak in the foreground. Official...
Smoke rising from the USS Yorktown off the coast of Midway, 1942
Photograph. Distant view of smoke rising from the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-5); American warship nearby....
The American flag flies above the rear deck of an aircraft carrier probably in the Pacific on 23 November 1943
The American flag flies above the rear deck of an aircraft carrier with the Grumman TBF/TBM Avenger onboard and a plane...
The National Ensign lends pictorial significance to this photograph of a Grumman F6F Hellcat approaching a U.S. aircraft carrier in February 1944
408.Photograph. 'File No: TR-6345 February 22, 1944 The flag and it's defenders Ruffling in the wind, the National...
The ponderous barrels of the USS Saratoga's fives command sea and sky as she moves toward another raid on Japanese bases in the Pacific in January 1944
410.Photograph. 'File No: TF-20-205327 January 18, 1944 Planes and guns 'Floating airfields', as our aircraft carriers...
The veteran aircraft carrier USS Saratoga is seen through a break in puffy white clouds in February 1944
407.Photograph. 'File No: TR-8220 February 22, 1944 'Keyhole' view of the Saratoga Through a break in puffy white...
U.S. and British Naval officers stand on the captain's bridge of an American carrier as the ship meets its British 'opposite number' warship before heading to Sabang on 19 April 1944
422.Photograph. "File No: TR-9684 May 20, 1944 First Photos Show U. S. and British carriers combining forces to smash...
US cruiser assisting the USS Princeton, Philippine Sea, 1944
Photograph. United States Nacy cruiser spraying the burning USS Princeton (CVL-23). Official caption on front: "...
US Navy sailors fighting a fire inside the USS Intrepid off the coast of Japan, 1945
Photograph. United States Navy sailors fighting a fire inside the USS Intrepid (CV-11) caused by a Japanese kamikaze...
US Navy sailors manning antiaircraft guns on an aircraft carrier, Pacific Ocean
Photograph. United States Navy sailors manning antiaircraft guns on the side of an aircraft carrier. Official caption...
US Navy warplanes being loaded with missiles on the deck of the USS Enterprise off the coast of the Marshall Islands, 1944
Photograph. United States Navy sailors arming warplanes with bombs on the deck of the USS Enterprise (CV-6). Official...
US sailors observing a Japanese plane crashing into the ocean off the coast of Saipan, NMI, 1944
Photograph. United States sailors on the deck of an aircraft carrier celebrating the downing of a Japanese airplane....
US sailors preparing to abandon the USS Princeton, Philippine Sea, 1944
Photograph. United States Navy sailors pointing to their left on the deck of the damaged USS Princeton (CVL-23);...
US sailors rearming planes on the deck of an aircraft carrier, Pacific Ocean
Photograph. United States sailors rearming dive bombers and torpedo planes on the deck of an aircraft carrier. Official...
US sailors walking on the tilted deck of the USS Yorktown off the coast of Midway, 1942
Photograph. United States sailors walking on the tilted deck of the damaged USS Yorktown (CV-5). Official caption on...
US sailors walking through the destroyed hangar deck of the USS Bunker Hill off the coast of Okinawa, 1945
Photograph. United States Navy sailors walking through the destroyed hangar deck of the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) after a...
USS Bunker Hill buring off the coast of Okinawa, 1945
Photograph. Smoke billowing from the USS Bunker Hill (CV-17); the USS The Sullivans (DD-537) is underway in the...
Wildcat chasing a Japanese bomber through clouds of antiaircraft flak, Pacific Ocean, 1944
Photograph. Grumman F4F Wildcat [center] chasing a Japanese bomber [right] through clouds of antiaircraft flak near an...
Wreckage on the hangar deck of the USS Sangamon off the coast of Okinawa, 1945
Photograph. Wreckage on the hangar deck of the USS Sangamon (CVE-26) after a Japanese kamikaze attack. Official caption...

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