US Navy war photographs, Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Harbor : a collection of official U.S. Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard photographs /
On 28 June 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were assassinated by a young Austrian student who fired three shots from a pistol at close range. From these three shots and two deaths the violence was to ripple outwards across Europe and then the world in a conflict so terrible, so giga...
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| Summary: | On 28 June 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were assassinated by a young Austrian student who fired three shots from a pistol at close range. From these three shots and two deaths the violence was to ripple outwards across Europe and then the world in a conflict so terrible, so gigantic, that men were to remember it, very simply, as ‘The Great War.’ In The Great War Correlli Barnett traces the conflict from its origins in a Europe wracked with tension, through the years of bitterness, loss and destruction when a compromise peace proved impossible, to the war’s bitter end in November 1918. He describes the military campaigns that centered on the need to defeat the main body of the ‘German army on the Western Front, how the British and French were forced to attack there again and again in 19147-17 and why these offensives failed to achieve a decisive victory. He draws lucid character sketches of the leading commanders such as Joffre, Haig, Foch and Ludendorff and outlines the bitter disagreements over strategy between commanders and politicians. Finally, he describes how the massive German offensives in spring 1918 were halted and how, with the newly-arrived American army, the Allies launched a series of counter-offensives that led to the armistice in November 1918. As well as conveying the vastness of the catastrophe that overtook Europe, The Great War also describes what the experience of total war meant to the individual - the suffering, terror and comradeship of the battlefield; the hope, grief and anguish of the waiting families at home - and how the conflict brought about immense social changes – the emancipation of women, the crumbling of the old class structures, the revolution in moral attitudes. The book shows how the demands of total war provided a colossal stimulus to intervention and technology – the development of air power, the tank, poison gas, the submarine, telecommunications. For the first time in history the old distinctions between combatants and non-combatants, between the armed forces and society as a whole, disappeared: society had to be fully mobilized and the Zeppelin and the bomber placed the civilians in the front line. Written by a distinguished military historian, The Great War combines exciting, fast-moving narrative with the historical insight that comes from long study. - Dust jacket. [1]. [2]. Boot. The transition from a civilian American youth to a duty-conscious member of the U.S. Navy, equipped to handle emergencies and face danger calmly, is a sharp one - a metamorphosis that took many months to effect before the war. But in several weeks at Naval Training Schools skilled instructors handled the process with temendous success. [3]. Sailor. Seriousness is written all over this kid's face as he keeps a port lookout on an aircraft carrier during the Aleutian operation. He is an 18-year-old S2/c, who used to clerk in a dry goods store back in Forrest City, Arkansas. Photographed by Lt. Wayne Miller, USNR. [4]. The [5]. Camera shutter stops 16-inch projectiles from the battleship Missouri. One our Navy's mighty Iowa-class battleships, the Missouri, is shown as her 16-inch guns fire in salvo from the forward turret. At the upper right six projectiles are shown in flight. Photographed by Sp(P)2/c Arthur T. Statham, USNR. [6]. Off duty in crew's quarters on the aircraft carrier Yorktown. Letter-writing, letter-reading, and just plain loafing, these crew members of an aircraft carrier relax during off-duty hours. The ship is operating in tropical waters and the men are stripped down against the heat. Photograph by Sp(P)1/c Alfonso M. Iannelli, USNR. [7]. The USS Tolman : destroyers are proudly and affectionately dubbed "cans." During Okinawa operations, destroyers acting as radar pickets took the most vicious attacks any ships endured. In one morning two destroyers were hit by 12 Kamikazes, shot down 13 or more, and yet managed to survive. [8]. Echelon of Grumman Avengers. These powerful bombers carry a crew of three. Included in their armament is a belly tunnel gun, visible beneath the insignia on the fuselage. Avenger flyers and the torpedoes they launced with deadly accuracy scored many important successes against units of the Japanese fleet. Photographed by Lt. Comdr. Horace Bristol, USNR. [9]. PBM in jet-assisted take-off. A massive twin-engined PBM takes off, assisted by a jet that enables this heavy Navy plane to shoot up from the water like a fourth of July skyrocket. Photographed by Lt. Comdr. Horace Bristol, USNR. [10]. Hangar deck of the USS Yorktown. Ordnance men arming planes on the hangar deck of the USS YORKTOWN, while in the background men off duty are watching a movie. Photographed by Lt. Comdr. Charles Kerlee, USNR. [11]. Murderer's row - six great carriers in Ulithi Anchorage. Read from foreground to background : USS WASP, USS YORKTOWN, USS HORNET, USS HANCOCK, USS TICONDEROGA, and USS LEXINGTON, anchored at Ulithi before a strike on Japan. [12]. Convoy in a storm off Hvalfjardi, Iceland. "In the Navy you get every snootful of the sea there is." [13]. Munitions explode on a U.S. cargo ship following hits by Nazi dive bombers - Sicilian invasion. A photographer caught this picture from the deck of Coast Guard-manned combat transport. Fire started by bombs dropped amidships spead rapidly to the ship's munition supply, which exploded to make this a dangerous though picturesque scene. Photographed by Warrant Officer W.J. Forsythe, USCGR. [14]. The Old USS Lexington orders "Abandon ship" - Coral Sea, May 1942. The destroyer alongside is taking off the sick and wounded while the able-bodied are sliding down ropes and being picked up by small boats. Not a man was lost in abandoning the ship. [15]. The Enterprise in action - Battle of Santa Cruz, 26 October 1942. A Japanese bomb splashes astern of the U.S. carrier as the enemy plane pulls out of its dive directly above the carrier. Another enemy plane is pictured (center) after making an unsuccessful dive on the carrier. A flash of the battleship's batteries may be observed, and a destroyer can be seen astern of the battleship. The cruiser from which this picture was taken leaves a curving white wake as she turns rapidly. the ENTERPRISE known in the fleet as the "Big E" established a proud fighting record during the war. Photographed by CPhoM Lauren Frazer Smith, USNR. [16]. Jap bomb hits flight deck of USS Enterprise - 24 August 1942. The film from his camera was saved, but this unique and famous picture cost the photographer his life. Photographed by PhoM3/c Robert Frederick Read, USNR. [17]. The carrier WASP - torpedoed near Guadalcanal, 15 September 1942. Engaged in covering the movement of supplies and reinforcements off Guadalcanal, the WASP took 3 enemy torpedoes near her gas tanks and magazines. Three hours later "abandon ship" was ordered and one of our own destroyers delivered the "coup de grace." [18]. Japanese heavy cruiser knocked out by carrier planes - Battle of Midway, June 1942. A Japanese heavy cruiser of the Magami class lies dead in the water after having been bombed by J.S. carrier-based naval aircraft. Photographed by a USS ENTERPRISE photographer. [19]. Jap freighter peppered by carrier-based planes - Jaluit Atoll, 16 February 1944. Dramatic strafing attacks off the Marshalls produced these geysers around the ship and set it afire. [20]. Tarawa - Marines in frontal assault take heavily-reinforced pillbox. At the order to charge, Marines swarmed over illbox on Tarawa, braving fire from all sides. The only way to silence the suicidal pillbox defenders was for the Marines to fight to the top and shoot down inside at the Japs. Photographed by Warrant Officer Obie Newcomb, Jr. USMCR. [21]. The Marines inch forward against suicidal resistance on Peleliu Island. The Leathernecks battled stiff resistance on this Gibraltar of the Rising Sun, in the Palau Group of the Caroline Islands. Photographed by Pfc. John P. Smith, USMCR. [22]. Surfaced Nazi submarine under attack by escort carrier planes - Atlantic convoy lanes.Shepherding a convoy, our planes carried the fight to Nazi "wolf packs." Seeking out the subs as they began to converge, Escort Carrier BOGUE dispersed the undersea foe with such stunning blows that no sub came within miles of the convoy. Photographed by a USS BOGUE photographer. [23]. Escort carrier planes circle the large slick where Nazi sub sant. Serpentine wake marks the sub's path to the circular oil slick where she sank. Photographed by CPhoM A.W. McEleny, USNR. [24]. Escort carrier planes drop ash cans on Nazi submarine. The escort carriers ended the growing German submarine menace. Submarine crew members crouch near conning tower as another ash can heads toward them. [25]. Five-inch guns fire during a night attack - Solomons, 21 October 1943. Photgraphed by PhoM1/c Glenn E. Reed, USNR. [26]. The Coast Guard cutter Spencer on Atlantic convoy duty depth charges and destroys a Nazi sub. Coast Guardsmen on the deck of the cutter SPENCER watch the explosion of a depth charge which blasted a Nazi U-boat's hope of breaking into the center of a large convoy. The depth chrage tossed from the 327-foot cutter blew the submarine to the surface, where it was engaged. Photographed by Warrant photographer Jess W. January, USCGR. [27]. Coast Guard rescues seamen from oil-covered sea. [28]. Invasion supplies - everything but the kitchen sink. Photographed by PhoM1/c Don C. Hansen, USCGR. [29]. LCI's unload troops on red beach at Morotai Island - September 1944. Photographed by a USS SANTA FE photographer. [30]. The United States Marines land at Cape Gloucester. Carrying their rifles high, Marines wade through a three-foot surf at Cape Gloucester from their LST and immediatley assemble at designated spots to push into the New Britain jungle and lay siege to the Jap-held airport. Photographed by Sgt. Robert M. Howard, USMCR. [31]. Invasion of Cape Gloucester - Marines and Coast Guardsmen prepare a causeway for landing. Photographed by CPhoM Edward Schertzer, USCGR. [32]. Sand bags for gun emplacements on a beach at Leyte, P.I. Veterans of several amphibious invasions along the long road from the Solomons to the Philippines, LST's unload their men and machines on the beach of Leyte. Photographed by PhoM1/c James C.W. Munde, USCGR. [33]. LST hit by Jap bomber - "Here comes another." As the rescue boat approaches the burning LST, all hands prepare for another attack from Jap bombers. Photographed by Y3/c Daniel B. Murphy, USNR. [34]. The USS Pennsylvania blasts Guam shore defenses preparatory to invasion - 20 JUly 1944. Photographed by a USS CHENANGO photographer. [35]. 14-inch guns bombard Guam - July 1944. [36]. Movies in the rain - Photo squadron of VD-1 on Guadalcanal, 25 March 1944. Garbed in slickers and helmets, they sit out a tropical thunder shower. Photographed by PhoM1/c R.R. Mercurio, USNR. [37]. Navy scout observation plane spotting fire of big guns - Anguar invasion. An OS2U flies over firing ships and landing craft carrying our invading troops to the shores of Anguar Island in the Palau group. Photographed by a USS PENNSYLVANIA photographer. [38]. The amphibious assault on Iwo Jima - 19 February 1945. Marines in landing craf hit the beach at Iwo Jima on 19 February 1945. At the left center is Mt. Suribachi, nick-named "Hot Rock" by the Marines who took the island. This aerial photograph was flown to Guam, transmitted by radio, and was printed in an American newspaper within 15 hours after it was made. [39]. The beach at Iwo Jima, D-Day - a wave of U.S. Marines begins attack. A wave of Fourth Division Marines begins the attack, as another boatload of battle-tested veterans is landed on the beach by assault craft. Photographed by T/Sgt. H. Neil Gillespie, USMCR. [40]. U.S Marines hit the beach on Iwo Jima - 19 February 1945. While smoke and dust from the fight on the slopes of Mt. Suribachi blur the outline of the volcano, U.S. Marines that afternoon hit the beach where the first waves landed in the morning. Photographed by Pvt. Bob Campbell, USMCR. [41]. Blood plasma and whole blood - Navy doctors and corpsmen treat Marines on Iwo Jima. Photographed by Warrant Officer, Obie Newcomb, Jr., USMCR. [42]. Coffee for the exhausted conquerors of Engebi Island - the United States Marines. Photographed by CPhoM Ray R. Platnick, USCGR. [43]. His battle station. Photographed by PhoM1/c Arthur Green, USCGR. [44]. Crew bunks with the torpedoes aboard a U.S. submarine. Photographed by Lt. Comdr. Charles Fenno Jacobs, USNR. [45]. Torpedoed Japanese destroyer phoographed through periscope of the U.S. submarine Wahu. This remarkable photograph, the first combat action photograph taken through the periscope of an American submarine, shows an enemy destroyer after it had been struck by two torpedoes launched by the submarine from which the picture was taken. The destroyer sank in nine minutes. Rising Sun insignia appears on top of the turret to the left. Two men in white scramble over the conning tower to the right. U.S. submarines sank over 5,000,000 tons of enemy shipping. [46]. Dawn attack by Douglas Dauntless dive bombers - Wake Island burns below - December 1943. Photographed by Lt. Comdr. Charles Kerlee, USNR. [47]. Helldivers returning from Guam strike - July 1944. Guam was the first U.S. possession retaken from the Japs since the war began. Photographed by PhoM1/c O.L. Smith, USNR. [48]. Japanese fleet under attack by carrier-based aircraft west of Marianas - 19 June 1944. A large Japanese carrier, Shokaku class, burning from bomb hits, turns sharply to starboard while damaging near-misses land off her bow and stern. Photographed by an aircrewman. [49]. Diagram of doom for Japfleet - 2nd battle of the Philippine Sea. The wak of a fleeing Japanese ship etches a gigantic question mark in the waters of Tablas Strait as it vainly dodges the aerial attack of Navy planes from Admiral Halsey's Third Fleet and Vice Admiral Kinkaid's Seventh Fleet in the Second Battle of the Philippine Sea. The wakes of other Japanese ships can be seen as well as the shadow of one of the Navy attacking planes. In this action, approximately sixty enemy ships were sunk. Photographed by an aircrewman. [50]. Carrier Helldivers score direct hits on two Jap transports south of Luzon - 25 November 1944. Photographed by an aircrewman. [51]. Jap carrier bombed and torpedoed by Navy planes - 24 October 1944. Her flight deck buckled by a torpedo explosion and punctured by bombs from Navy dive bombers, this Zuiho-class Jap carrier manuevers violently to escape further blows. She sank the same day. Photographed by an aircrewman. [52]. Scratch another meat ball - Saipan operations. Photographed by a USS KITKUM BAY photographer. [53]. Escort carrier takes a beating from enemy fleet - Philippine Sea, 25 October 1944. The USS GAMBIER BAY is bracketed by shells from the Jap Fleet which the Seventh Fleet carrier escort group fought off in the Second Battle of the Philippine Sea. A Jap cruiser is dimly visible on the horizon (right). Photographed by a USS KITKUM BAY photographer. [54]. "Coup de grace" for the fatally wounded USS Princeton - 24 October 1944. The huge geyser of smoke and flame marks the death of the light carrier USS PRINCETON as it is hit by our torpedoes after all hands abandoned ship. The PRINCETON was damaged during a Jap air attack in "round one" of the Second Battle of the Philippine Sea. Desperate efforts were exerted to save the ship, but flames and internal explosions defeated all hopes of salvage. [55]. Carrier planes destroy Jap convoy off French Indo Chino - 12 January 1945. [56]. Aircrewman wounded in strike on Rabaul - aircraft carrier USS Saratoga, 5 November 1943. Photographed by Lt. Wayne Miller, USNR. [57]. Aircrewmen in ready room prepare grimly for another strike - 5 November 1944. Veteran aircrewmen put on flight gear for a strike against Manila. Sober faces show they know what they are up against. Photographed by Lt. Wayne Miller, USNR. [58]. The 4-mm gunners knocked Jap kamikazes from the sky. Photographed by Lt. Comdr. Charles Kerlee, USNR. [59]. Gunners of the USS Hornet score a direct hit on Jap bomber - 18 March 1945. Photographed by a USS HORNET photographer. [60]. Jap suicide plunge that missed and crashed alongside the USS Sangamon. [61]. Direct hit - Yorktown gunners destroy Jap torpedo plane off Kwajalein, 4 December 1943. Photographed by CPhoM Alfred Norman Cooperman, USNR. [62]. Close-up of Jap kamikaze just before he crashed on USS Essex - 25 November 1944. Photographed by Lt. Comdr. Earl Colgrove, USNR. [63]. A kamikaze crashes on fligh deck of the Essex, forward of Number 2 elevator. Photographed by a USS TICONDEROGA, photographer. [64]. Planes overhead - theirs or ours? Mindoro invasion. Antiaircraft gun crews of a U.S. Navy cruiser strain to spot the status of an unidentified plane overhead. [65]. Gunners on the USS Yorktown watch two kamikaze dive bombers attack the USS Intrepid. One plane crashes aboard the INTREPID's deck while its bomb explodes beside the carrier; the other plane misses the carrier and crashes near the bomb splash. Photographed by PhoM1/c William Helms, USNR. [66]. The USS Bunker Hill takes two kamikazes in 30 seconds - 11 May 1945. While operating with a fast carrier task force in the "slot" between Okinawa and Kyushu, these two suicide hits, acting as fuses to the gasoline-filled and bomb-laden planes, set the stage for one of the most heroic battles of the Pacific. Fighting suffocating flame and exploding rockets and bombs, the gallant crew, her heroes unnumbered, sacrificed 392 dead or missing and 264 wounded to save their ship. Photographed by a USS BUNKER HILL photographer. [67]. The Bunker Hill photographed a few seconds later from another ship. Photographed by a USS BATAAN photographer. [68]. Explosion following hit on the USS Franklin by Jap dive bomber - 19 March 1945. Operating less than 60 miles from the Japanese coast, with many of her planes fully armed and fueled, the carrier was suddenly attacked by a Jap dive bomber, which scored hits with two 500-pound armor-piercing bombs. Gutted by flame, listing badly and suffering more that 1000 casualties, the carrier limped the thousands of miles back to New York. Photographed by a USS SANTA FE photographer. [69]. The cruiser USS Santa Fe stands by the badly damaged Franklin. Photographed by a USS SANTA FE photographer. [70]. Religious services under the blasted flight deck of the USS Franklin. Photographed by CPhoM R. Woodwaard, USNR. [71]. Jap suicide plane attack on the battleship USS Missouri. Photographed by a USS MISSOURI photographer. [72]. Impact and explosion of Jap plane on flight deck of the Intrepid -25 November 1944. Four times the USS INTREPID was battered into flames by Jap air action, and four times the big Esex-class carrier returned to fight again. Photographed by a USS INTREPID photographer. [73]. Battling fires on the carrier Intrepid following kamikaze crash. Photographed by Lt. Barrett Gallagher, USNR. [74]. Jap suicide planes hit the USS Ticonderoga off Formosa - 21 January 1945. Smoke pours from a bomb hole in the deck of the USS TICONDEROGA, where the first of two Japanese suicide planes crashed her while she was operating off the coast of Formosa. The second suicide plane crashed near the Number 1 elevator. The thick cloud of black smoke in the top right hand corner comes from the elevator. [75]. Jap bomber crosses deck in flames - misses the USS Lunga Point by inches. Photographed by a USS LUNGA POINT photographer. [76]. Transfer of wounded from the USS Bunker Hill to the USS Wilkes Barre. Photographed by PhoM3/c Kenneth Roberts, USNR. [77]. Helping hand of the Coast Guard. The hand is reaching out from the rail to swing a wounded Marine aboard. Photographed by CPhoM Ray R. PLatnick USCGR. [78]. Beabees at holy services - sand bag seats in a canvas chapel. Photographed by Chief Carpenter's Mate H.F. Merterns, 50th Seabees. [79]. Doctors and corpsmen treat Okinawa casualties on hospital ship Solace - May 1945. Photographed by Lt. Victor Jorgenson, USNR. [80]. The Seabees did a Paul Bunyan in the Pacific - built harbors and moved islands. Photographed by Lt. Comdr. Charles Fenno Jacobs, USNR. [81]. Warriors in trunks - Navy underwater demolition teams blasted invasion channels to the beaches. One of the most dangerous and diffuclt assignments of the war, members of these teams, unarmed and garbed only in swimming trunks, swam to action, braving enemy fire to clear out with explosives the natural and man-made obstacles off the beaches. [82]. Amtracks move in as battleship fires salvos - Okinawa, 1 April 1945. Photographed by Lt. Gil DeWitt, USNR. [83]. LSM's (r) send volleys of rockets to the shores of Tokishiki Shima - March 1945. [84]. Marine corsair cuts loose with eight 5-inch rockets over Okinawa. Photographed by Lt. David Duncan, USMCR. [85]. Marines smoke out Japs from a cave at Naha, Okinawa. Photographed by Sgt. Thomas D. Barnett, Jr., USMCR. [86]. Tired marine and dog sleep on a bed of rocks - Okinawa. Photographed by Pfc. R.G. West, USMCR. [87]. Leathernecks and a native boy share foxhole on Okinawa. Phtographed by Sgt, William McBride, USMCR. [88]. Night pattern of antiaircraft fire - Okinawa, 27 April 1945. The camera catches the flight of traces and the fiery trails of shells going up to meet the attacker. [89]. Carrier-based planes plaster the battleship Haruna - Kure Area, 28 July 1945. [90]. Sweating it out - listening in on carrier intercom to bombers over Tinian, 11 July 1944. A loud speaker brings voices of bomber pilots talking to each other over the interplane phone system. This interplane talk is picked up by the carrier's radio and transmitted through the loud speaker in the pilots' ready room. Photographed by Lt. Victor Jorgenson, USNR. [91]. Mission completed - all bombers returning. Photographed by Lt. Victor Jorgenson, USNR. [92]. The battleship Yamato sunk by Navy planes - East China Sea, 17 April 1945. The largest and mightiest Jap battleship blows up just before sinking, Eight bomb and eight torpedo hits were made by Navy pilots. Besides the YAMATO, Fast Carrier Task Force planes sank two cruisers and three destroyers on the same day. [93]. Hellcat roars off flight deck of "The Blue Ghost" - the USS Lexington. [94]. Strike on Tokyo - 52 carrier-based planes pass Mt. Fujiyama, February 1945. Photographed by Comdr. G.A. Heap, USN. [95]. The Third Fleet maneuvers off the coast of Japan - 17 August 1945. Photographed by Lt. Barrett Gallagher, USNR. [96]. Grave of an unknown U.S. Marine on Saipan. Photographed by Lt. Paul Dorsey, USMCR. [97]. To the dead are accorded the honors that go only to heroic men of the sea who die in battle - burial at sea with full rite and ritual while their shipmates, with all the dignity of the living, pay silent tribute. Photographed by a USS LEXINGTON photographer. [98]. News of defeat comes to Jap prisoners of war - Guam. News of the defeat and unconditional surrender of Japan reached these Japanese prisoners of war at a POW camp on Guam, when with bowed heads they heard Emperor Hirohito broadcast to the people of Japan. [99]. Allied prisoners cheer victory - Aomori near Yokohama. Waving the flags of the United State, Great Britain, and Holland, Allided prisoners of war at Aomori wildly cheer approaching units of the Fleet, 29 August 1945. [100]. Sunset over Fujiyama - U.S. Fleet in Tokyo Bay, 29 August 1945. [101]. Tokyo Harbor - 2 September 1945. |
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| Item Description: | Includes reproductions of photographs by Horace Bristol and David Douglas Duncan. |
| Physical Description: | 108 pages : chiefly illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm |