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Aerial reconnaissance photo of Japanese facilities at Truk, taken by a Marine Corps PB4Y-1 patrol bomber, from Bougainville, on 4 February 1944. Dublon Island is at bottom left, and Fefan Island is in lower right. In center is the Eten Island Air…

Japanese merchant ship sinking, after her back was broken by one of THRESHER'S torpedoes, probably on 15 January or 27 January 1944. Photo taken while CDR W. J. Millican was THRESHER's C/O. It was received 10 May 1944.

A Japanese freighter of about 4500 tons blows up during attacks by USS LEXINGTON (CV-16) planes on a convoy south of Camranh Bay, French Indochina, 12 January 1945. The ship was apparently carrying a cargo of gasoline or other highly flammable…

Japanese convoy under attack from USS LEXINGTON (CV-16), near Juinhon, French Indochina, 12 January 1945. These two ships are heading for the beach. Burning vessel is a tanker of about 2500 tons. The other is a freighter of about 4500 tons. Position:…

Ships and installations afire after aerial attack by carrier based planes of US Pacific fleet, 12 January 1945. Taken by plane from USS TICONDEROGA (CV-14)

The Japanese transports Hirokawa Maru and Kinugawa Maru beached and burning after a failed resupply run to Guadalcanal on 15 November 1942.

Kinugawa Maru (Japanese cargo ship) Beached and sunk on the Guadalcanal shore, November 1943. She had been sunk by U.S. aircraft on 15 November 1942, while attempting to deliver men and supplies to Japanese forces holding the northern part of the…

Photograph of sinking ship, possibly the Gifi Maru

US Admiral Charles Lockwood

This WWII film, one of the Castle Newsreels, shows Operation Hailstone -- a massive naval air and surface attack launched on February 16–17, 1944, during World War II by the United States Navy against the Japanese naval and air base at Truk in the…