North Carolina (BB-55) at sea during her shakedown cruise, circa April-May 1941. She a part of the new generation of battleships that had faster speeds, heavier AA guns, and her main battery of nine 14-inch (356 mm)/50 caliber Mark B guns.
The U.S. Navy Iowa Class battleship USS Wisconsin (BB-64) is tied up outboard of the hulk of USS Oklahoma (BB-37), at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, Hawaii (USA), on 11 November 1944. The photo shows how battleship technology has changed with…
Photo of the New York Naval Shipyard with Aircraft Carriers under construction. The USS Reprisal (CV-35) in Dry Dock No. 6; USS Coral Sea, later renamed USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVB-42) in Dry Dock No. 5; USS Kearsarge (CV-33); USS Oriskany (CV-34)…
A forward turret being constructed aboard USS Iowa BB-61 in 1942. Note the 0.75 in (1.9 cm) STS steel plates making up the gun house sides. To this will be bolted 9.5 in (24.1 cm) Class A armor plates. The turret back was 0.75 in (1.9 cm) STS over…
Future President George H. W. Bush in a WWII US Navy Pilot Combat Uniform. Notice how little a light it is along with how little room he has in the cockpit of his Grumman TBM Avenger.
Flight deck officer motions "pull the chocks" with his thumbs, as chockmen remove chocks from the wheels of a Grumman F6F-3 "Hellcat" fighter in preparation for take-off from a training escort carrier.
A map of all the ships the US Produced during WW2. During the war, nearly 7000 ships were built and 4 million men manned fully manned every one of them. Never before or since has the navy seen such numbers produced or the total number of men in…