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A Vought OS2U Kingfisher floatplane returns to the USS Massachusetts (BB-59). Note that the ship has made a half circle to provide an area of calm sea for the return of the floatplane, 1944.
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USS Yorktown (CV-10) 2500 enlisted men sleep on cots in the carrier's hangar, as she steams from the west coast to Pearl Harbor in mid-September 1943. Note motion picture screen triced up in the overhead and seabags piled by cots and by the hangar sides.
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USS Mississippi (BB-41), escort carriers, and other U.S. ships are shown in the huge anchorage of Manus Island of the Admiralty Islands during World War II, circa September 1944.
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Flak bursts around Consolidated B-24 "Liberators" of the 15th Air Force, en route to bomb enemy installations at Toulon, France. 29 April 1944
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