Naval Warfare in the Pacific

Black and white footage of naval actions, featuring battleships, torpedo launches, and bombardments during WWII in the Pacific, including the Battle of Okinawa.

ULITHI - 1945 - Landing craft sail in a convoy near Ulithi, Caroline Islands.

DD-828 Timmerman , Ships, Naval Vessels, Boats, Naval History, Navy

Anefo photo collection. Vlotmanouvres Visit Montgomery and Prince Bernhard. July 6, 1949

DN-SN-89-08127. Base: Unknown

The English submarine HMS Opportune (1964-1993).

A port amidships view of the Soviet Udaloy class guided missile destroyer MARSHAL VASILEVSKY underway. Visible on deck, from left to right, are two 30 mm gatling guns, two quad 21-inch/533 mm torpedo tubes, and two RBU-6000 rocket launchers. Country: Unknown

Anefo photo collection. Cloud negatives. July 20, 1949

DN-SN-86-02383. Country: Pacific Ocean (POC)

Removal of Ill Seaman from SS Gulf Service. This image depicts the removal of ill seaman from SS GULF SERVICE.

AMS-140 , Ships, Naval Vessels, Boats, Naval History, Navy

Aerial starboard side view of the Russian Navy Pacific Fleet Goryn Class seagoing tug MB-105 underway. Country: East China Sea

The Royal Navy Supporting Allied Forces in Normandy, June 1944 Starboard 4 inch guns of HMS BELFAST open fire on German positions around Ver-sur-Mer on the night of 27 June 1945.

''Des Hauts-de-Meuse a l'Aisne', 1914. From "L'Album de la Guerre 1914-1919: Volume I". L'Illustration, Paris, 1926.

German mine sweeps and landing boats at sea.

AMS-119 , Ships, Naval Vessels, Boats, Naval History, Navy

An aerial port bow view of the Los Angeles class nuclear-powered attack submarine USS BUFFALO (SSN 715) underway. Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC)

Aerial stern-on view of a Russian Navy Northern Fleet Delta III class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine on the surface. The boat is equipped with a towed passive sonar array. Country: Baltic Sea

S61-01372 (21 Feb. 1961) --- Launch of the unmanned Mercury-Atlas 2 (MA-2) vehicle for a suborbital test flight of the Mercury capsule. The upper part of Atlas is stengthened by an eight-inch wide stainless steel band. The capsule was recovered less than one hour after launch. The altitude was 108 miles. Speed was 13,000 mph. Recovered 1,425 miles downrange.

An RGM-84A Harpoon anti-ship missile is launched from the destroyer USS PETERSON (DD-969) during FLEET EX 1-90. Subject Operation/Series: FLEET EX 1-90 Country: Atlantic Ocean (AOC)

AM-431 Dominant , Ships, Naval Vessels, Boats, Naval History, Navy

Torpedo shore Indonesian corvette.

A smoke signal launched from the fast attack submarine USS TUCSON (SSN 770), as seen through its periscope, indicates to the other participants in Exercise TEAMWORK SOUTH '99 that an attack by the sub has taken place while off the coast of Chile. Subject Operation/Series: TEAMWORK SOUTH '99 Base: USS Tucson (SSN 770)

DN-SN-86-11464. Country: Sea Of Japan

ARC-3 Aeolus , Ships, Naval Vessels, Boats, Naval History, Navy

Torpedo boat of the French Navy blows up a German mine in the sea near the French coastline, First World War, photograph from the magazine L'Illustration, year 75, no 3891, September 29, 1917.

AM-449 Impervious , Ships, Naval Vessels, Boats, Naval History, Navy

DN-ST-86-03505. Subject Operation/Series: BALTOPS '85 Country: Baltic Sea

Aerial view of the Italian Fleet which surrendered at Malta. 1943

On May 12, 1975, the Khmer Rouge seized the USS Mayaguez and its crew in Cambodian territorial waters as they were en route to Thailand. The US first launched a rescue mission that ended in disaster after a helicopter crashed. A massive assault was launched on May 14-15 and the majority of the crew were rescued from the island of Koh Tang, but not before both sides had lost over a dozen casualties. The Mayaguez Incident marked the last official US involvement in the Vietnam War. It was the only recorded clash between US forces and the Khmer Rouge.

DN-SN-88-09661. Base: Unknown

The Mark 28 5-inch/38-caliber guns are fired aboard the battleship USS MISSOURI (BB-63) during a seapower demonstration for the Navy League taking place off the coast of southern California. Country: Pacific Ocean (POC)

RAF Coastal Command 1939-45 One of a sequence of photographs showing a Dornier Do 18 that was attacked and forced down over the North Sea by a Hudson of Coastal Command, 14 April 1940.

The Royal Navy during the Second World War HMS FORMIDABLE seen from the air off Mombasa.

APD-121 R.W. Herndon 19-NN-APD-121 R.W. Herndon-139064 , Ships, Naval Vessels, Boats, Naval History, Navy

An Egyptian attack craft on the Soviet-built Shershen class, hull no. 757, crosses before the bow of the Iraqi Stromboli class replenishment tanker AQGNADEEN (A-102) laid up in the harbor. Base: Alexandria Country: Egypt (EGY)

Colonel Moore And Crew Of The 479Th Anti Submarine Group Adrift In The Sea Prior To Their Rescue By The Navy. England, 22 August 1943.

AOE3- Seattle , Ships, Naval Vessels, Boats, Naval History, Navy

ARABIAN GULF (Aug. 30, 2022) Screenshot of a video showing support ship Shahid Baziar, left, from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy unlawfully towing a Saildrone Explorer unmanned surface vessel in international waters of the Arabian Gulf, Aug. 30. (U.S. Navy photo)

Aerial recording of a new island that arises through a submarine volcano near Iceland, but after a while the island has disappeared into the sea. The recording is made from a Dutch patrol / submarine booth bought the Lockheed Neptune SP-2H type.

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