Naval Aviation

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Submarine warfare (784)
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Kamikazes (489)
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Japanese kamikaze attacking the USS Suwannee off the coast of Leyte Island, 1944
Photograph. Japanese kamikaze diving towards the USS Suwannee (CVE-27); a Grumman F6F Hellcat is flying in from the...
Japanese kamikaze attacking the USS Suwannee off the coast of Leyte Island, 1944
Photograph. Japanese kamikaze diving towards the USS Suwannee (CVE-27); a Grumman F6F Hellcat is flying over the ship....
Japanese kamikaze colliding with the USS Suwannee off the coast of Leyte Island, 1944
Photograph. Japanese kamikaze colliding with the USS Suwannee (CVE-27) and exploding on contact; a Grumman F6F Hellcat...
Japanese Merchant Shipping Losses Quarterly Totals 1942 1944 presented in July 1944
448.Photograph. Official U. S. Navy Chart 'File No: 45911 Japanese Merchant Shipping Losses Quarterly Totals 1942 1944...
Japanese naval port being bombed by US Navy warplanes, Soerabaja, 1944
Photograph, aerial. Japanese naval port being bombed by United States Navy warplanes at Surabaya. Official caption on...
Japanese oil refinery burning, Java, 1944
Photograph, aerial. Large column of black smoke rising from a burning Japanese oil refinery. Official caption on front...
Japanese patrol torpedo boats being bombed by a U.S. Navy plane, Kyūshū Island, Japan, June 1945
Photograph. Aerial photograph of anchored Japanese patrol torpedo boats being bombed by a U.S. Navy plane. Official...
Japanese sailors abandoning ship in open ocean, Pacific Ocean
Photograph, aerial. Japanese sailors lying on the side of a keeled over warship; other sailors are in the surrounding...
Japanese serviceman in front of a Nakajima J1N1-S Gekko "Irving"
Photograph. Japanese serviceman standing in front of a parked Nakajima J1N1-S Gekko "Irving." The nose of the J1N1-S is...
Japanese ships burning in Manila Bay, Philippines
Photograph, aerial. Several Japanese ships burning off the coast of Manila after an American aerial attack. Official...
Japanese ships burning in Manila Bay, Philippines
Photograph, aerial. Several Japanese ships burning near a coast after an American aerial bombing. Official caption on...
Japanese ships showing damage after a successful Army Air Force bombing run at Rabaul in November 1943
Photograph. Japanese ships showing damage after a successful Army Air Force bombing run at Rabaul in November 1943. "...
Japanese soldiers lie dead near their wrecked plane at Yontan Airfield, Okinawa, Japan, 1945
Photograph. Japanese soldiers who participated in a suicide attack on American-held Yontan airfield on Okinawa lie dead...
Japanese suicide bomber crashes into the water after being hit, Okinawa Island, July 1945
Photograph. Japanese suicide bomber crashes into the water after being hit by anti-aircraft guns. Official Caption: "...
Japanese suicide plane crashes into ocean near a U.S. Navy carrier, Pacific Ocean, July 1945
Photograph. Japanese suicide plane crashes into ocean after narrowly missing a U.S. Navy carrier. Official Caption: "...
Japanese suicide rocket bomb on Okinawa, Japan, 1945
Photograph. U.S. Marines examining a Japanese manned flying bomb on Okinawa. Official Caption: "Rome. 7/9/45--Captured...
Japanese tanker being strafed and bombed by a US Navy aircraft, Taiwan
Photograph, aerial. Japanese tanker being strafed and bombed by a United States Navy aircraft. Official caption on...
Japanese warplane falling towards the ocean off the coast of the Philippines
Photograph. Japanese warplane falling out of sky near American aircraft carrier; clouds of antiaircraft flak surround...
Japanese warship attempting to evade American aerial attacks, Philippines
Photograph, aerial. Japanese warship attempting to evade American bombing attacks. Official caption on front: "Jap...
Kamikaze attacking narrowly missing the USS Ticonderoga off the coast of the Philippines
Photograph. Column of water rising from the ocean from a kamikaze crashing next to the USS Ticonderoga (CV-14)....
Kamikaze attacking the USS Santa Fe off the coast of Taiwan
Photograph. Japanese kamikaze attcking the USS Santa Fe in open water. Official caption on front: "Jap suicide plane...
Kamikaze banking near US warship off the coast of Iwo Jima, Japan, 1945
Photograph. Japanese kamikaze banking in air near an American warship. Official caption on front: "Kamikaze attack off...
Kamikaze crashing near a US aircraft carrier off the coast of Iwo Jima, Japan, 1945
Photograph. Japanese kamikaze crashing in the ocean next to an American aircraft carrier; antiaircraft flak is in the...
Kamikaze plane crashing in near US aircraft carriers off the coast of Iwo Jima, Japan, 1945
Photograph. Japanese kamikaze plane crashing in the ocean near two American aircraft carriers; antiaircraft flak is in...
Kamikaze plane falling out of flak-filled sky off the coast of Okinawa, Japan, 1945
Photograph. Flaming Japanese kamikaze plane falling out of sky filled with clouds of antiaircraft flak; two American...
Kamikaze plane falling towards ocean off the coast of Iwo Jima, Japan, 1945
Photograph. Japanese kamikaze falling towards the ocean in the background; seen from the deck of an American warship....
Kushiro burning after an air raid, Hokkaido, 1945
Photograph, aerial. Large clouds of smoke rising from burning buildings after a United States Navy bomber attack....
L-shaped Japanese government building surrounded by razed ground, Naha, Okinawa, 1945
Photograph. A bomb damaged building. Personal caption on photo front: "Jap. Gov. Bldg. Naha - Okinawa" and on photo...
Landing assaults are launched while surface bombardment takes place on Guam on 20 July 1944
504.Photograph. 'File Number: 59457 August 2, 1944 D-Day on Guam Rising to a crescendo as landing assaults are launched...
Large column of smoke rising from a burning pier at Manila Bay, Philippines
Photograph, aerial. Large column of smoke rising from a burning pier on the coast. Official caption on front: "Blazing...
Large smoke plume rising from dock, Singapore, 1945
Photograph, aerial. View of a large smoke plume rising from a dock in Singapore. Official Caption: "Rome, 7/2/45--...
Last flight of the 'Thunder Mug', famed Consolidated Liberator piloted by Commander Norman M. 'Bus' Miller, USN, of Winston Salem, North Carolina in September 1944
402.Photograph. Consolidated PB4Y-1 Liberator. 'File No: 46579 September 21, 1944 Saga of Bus Miller--- Last flight of...
LCI rocket barrage off the coast of Luzon Island, Philippines, 1945
Photograph. American LCI (Landing Craft, Infantry) firing rockets during an amphibious invasion. Official caption on...
LCS(L) surrounding the sunken USS William D. Porter off the coast of Okinawa, Japan, 1945
Photograph. LCS(L)(3)-86 and two other Landing Craft, Support (Large) surrounding the sunken USS William D. Porter (DD-...
Lifeboat of US Navy sailors leaving the sinking USS Lexington, Coral Sea, 1942
Photograph. Lifeboat full of United States Navy sailors leaving the sinking USS Lexington (CV-2). Official caption on...
Looking down at cloud bank from inside plane, England
Photograph. View from interior of nose cone of B-17 Flying Fortress looking down onto clouds below. Thurleigh airfield...

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