USN:
USS Missouri (BB-63) in New York Harbor, 30 July 1944, with the barge Cleary Bros. No. 76 alongside and ship's boats moored astern. Note camouflage pattern painted on her deck.
Balao-class submarine USS Mero (SS-378) surfacing off USCGC Tamarack (WAGL 248) bow in Lake Michigan during Mero's sea trials in August 1945.
USN:
Flight II Arleigh Burke class destroyer USS Decatur (DDG 73) leaving Pearl Harbor, with an F-15 taking off from Hickham AFB overhead. Oct 27, 2023
Flight IIA Arleigh Burke class destroyer USS Mustin (DDG 89) exits BAE shipyard in San Diego after an extensive Depot Modernization Period. With the upgrades she is now an extremely capable AEGIS Baseline 9 ship. Oct 27, 2023
USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) eastbound in the Strait of Gibraltar. Oct 28 2023
Australia:
County class heavy cruiser HMAS Australia in 1930. The base for an as-yet-unfitted revolving catapult is clearly visible aft of the funnels.
USN:
Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), sails with Henry J. Kaiser class fleet replenishment oiler USNS Henry J. Kaiser (T-AO-187), Sept. 17, 2023
STRAIT OF GIBRALTAR (Oct. 28, 2023) The Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group transits the Strait of Gibraltar, Oct. 28, 2023
Led by USS Mason (DDG 87), a veteran of her own brush with missiles fired by Houthi rebels in 2016. Mason has since undergone upgrades and is an AEGIS Baseline 9 ship now.
Freedom class LCS USS Marinette (LCS-25) At Cleveland, Ohio. 28 Oct 2023
Japan:
Crew of the sinking Shōkaku-class aircraft carrier Zuikaku salute as the flag is lowered on 25 October 1944.
Crew members give a final banzai cheer after the Japanese Naval Ensign was lowered.
Zuikaku rolled over and sank stern-first at 14:14, taking the lives of Rear Admiral (promoted from captain 10 days earlier) Kaizuka Takeo and 842 of the ship's crew; 862 officers and men were rescued
RN:
Members of a Royal Navy gun crew man the MK IV 8-barrelled QF 2-pounder pom-pom naval guns mounted just below the flight deck aboard the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious (87) on operation prior to sailing to the Indian Ocean, 25th March 1942
King George V class battleship HMS Anson, 15 October 1948. Her pom-poms have been 'cocooned' and her light weapons removed.
HMS Aurora 1986 - off Norway late in the day following an exercise against some local fast patrol boats - photo taken by my aircrewman Nick Horst from my Wasp. [#navalaviator]
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