Naval Aviation

Aerial bombardment (2477)
Air warfare (2269)
Submarine warfare (784)
Bailing out/loss of plane (664)
Naval shore bombardment (537)
Kamikazes (489)
Carrier warfare (425)
Dog fights (366)

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Individual propellers carried on triangular trailers for plane repair, Thurleigh Airfield
Photograph. Individual propellers carried on triangular trailers for plane repair, bicycles leaning against the...
Japanese aircraft carrier under attack by US forces, Philippine Sea
Photograph. Japanese aircraft carrier under attack by American forces; antiaircraft flak is visible in the sky;...
Japanese aircraft carrier under attack by US forces, Philippine Sea
Photograph, aerial. Smoke billowing from a Japanese aircraft carrier; bombs are exploding in the surrounding water; an...
Japanese aircraft carriers performing evasive maneuvers, Philippine Sea
Photograph, aerial. Two Japanese aircraft carriers performing evasive maneuvers to avoid American bombings; bombs are...
Japanese aircraft manuvering to avoid US Navy warplane bombardment of the coast of the Philippines
Photograph, aerial. Japanese aircraft carrier under attack by United States Navy warplanes; smoke and explosions are...
Japanese airplane diving towards an American aircraft carrier, Philippine Sea
Photograph. Japanese airplane diving towards an American aircraft carrier; smoke is rising in the background. Official...
Japanese airplanes attacking the USS Hornet off the coast of the Santa Cruz Islands, 1942
Photograph. Japanese torpedo bombers attacking the USS Hornet (CV-8); spray from bullets in the water in the foreground...
Japanese airplanes attacking the USS Hornet off the coast of the Santa Cruz Islands, 1942
Photograph. Japanese torpedo bombers attacking the USS Hornet (CV-8); spray from bullets in the water in the foreground...
Japanese battleship turning to avoid US Navy bombs off the coast of Kure, Japan, 1945
Photograph, aerial. Japanese battleship turning to avoid United States Navy bombs; several bombs are exploding in the...
Japanese cargo ship sinking off the coast of Marinduque Island, Philippines
Photograph, aerial. Japanese cargo ship sinking after an American aerial bombardment. Official caption on front: "Jap...
Japanese civilians and US sailors walk along city street, Japan
Photograph. Japanese civilians and US sailors walk along city street. Buildings in the background are damaged and one...
Japanese complex of buildings and bombed surrounding areas, Tokyo
Photograph, aerial. Fire bombed areas surround a few standing buildings. . Official caption: "Released. If published...
Japanese forces attacking a US aircraft carrier, East China Sea
Photograph. Japanese bomb exploding near an American aircraft carrier in the background; sailors are behind an...
Japanese freighter burning off the coast of a Pacific island, Pacific Ocean
Photograph, aerial. Cloud of smoke rising from the deck of a Japanese freighter as it burns off the coast of an island...
Japanese kamikaze attacking the USS Suwannee off the coast of Leyte Island, 1944
Photograph. Japanese kamikaze diving towards the USS Suwannee (CVE-27); a Grumman F6F Hellcat is flying over the ship....
Japanese kamikaze attacking the USS Suwannee off the coast of Leyte Island, 1944
Photograph. Japanese kamikaze diving towards the USS Suwannee (CVE-27); a Grumman F6F Hellcat is flying in from the...
Japanese kamikaze colliding with the USS Suwannee off the coast of Leyte Island, 1944
Photograph. Japanese kamikaze colliding with the USS Suwannee (CVE-27) and exploding on contact; a Grumman F6F Hellcat...
Japanese Merchant Shipping Losses Quarterly Totals 1942 1944 presented in July 1944
448.Photograph. Official U. S. Navy Chart 'File No: 45911 Japanese Merchant Shipping Losses Quarterly Totals 1942 1944...
Japanese naval port being bombed by US Navy warplanes, Soerabaja, 1944
Photograph, aerial. Japanese naval port being bombed by United States Navy warplanes at Surabaya. Official caption on...
Japanese oil refinery burning, Java, 1944
Photograph, aerial. Large column of black smoke rising from a burning Japanese oil refinery. Official caption on front...
Japanese patrol torpedo boats being bombed by a U.S. Navy plane, Kyūshū Island, Japan, June 1945
Photograph. Aerial photograph of anchored Japanese patrol torpedo boats being bombed by a U.S. Navy plane. Official...
Japanese sailors abandoning ship in open ocean, Pacific Ocean
Photograph, aerial. Japanese sailors lying on the side of a keeled over warship; other sailors are in the surrounding...
Japanese serviceman in front of a Nakajima J1N1-S Gekko "Irving"
Photograph. Japanese serviceman standing in front of a parked Nakajima J1N1-S Gekko "Irving." The nose of the J1N1-S is...
Japanese ships burning in Manila Bay, Philippines
Photograph, aerial. Several Japanese ships burning off the coast of Manila after an American aerial attack. Official...
Japanese ships burning in Manila Bay, Philippines
Photograph, aerial. Several Japanese ships burning near a coast after an American aerial bombing. Official caption on...
Japanese ships showing damage after a successful Army Air Force bombing run at Rabaul in November 1943
Photograph. Japanese ships showing damage after a successful Army Air Force bombing run at Rabaul in November 1943. "...
Japanese soldiers lie dead near their wrecked plane at Yontan Airfield, Okinawa, Japan, 1945
Photograph. Japanese soldiers who participated in a suicide attack on American-held Yontan airfield on Okinawa lie dead...
Japanese suicide bomber crashes into the water after being hit, Okinawa Island, July 1945
Photograph. Japanese suicide bomber crashes into the water after being hit by anti-aircraft guns. Official Caption: "...
Japanese suicide plane crashes into ocean near a U.S. Navy carrier, Pacific Ocean, July 1945
Photograph. Japanese suicide plane crashes into ocean after narrowly missing a U.S. Navy carrier. Official Caption: "...
Japanese suicide rocket bomb on Okinawa, Japan, 1945
Photograph. U.S. Marines examining a Japanese manned flying bomb on Okinawa. Official Caption: "Rome. 7/9/45--Captured...
Japanese tanker being strafed and bombed by a US Navy aircraft, Taiwan
Photograph, aerial. Japanese tanker being strafed and bombed by a United States Navy aircraft. Official caption on...
Japanese warplane falling towards the ocean off the coast of the Philippines
Photograph. Japanese warplane falling out of sky near American aircraft carrier; clouds of antiaircraft flak surround...
Japanese warship attempting to evade American aerial attacks, Philippines
Photograph, aerial. Japanese warship attempting to evade American bombing attacks. Official caption on front: "Jap...
Kamikaze attacking narrowly missing the USS Ticonderoga off the coast of the Philippines
Photograph. Column of water rising from the ocean from a kamikaze crashing next to the USS Ticonderoga (CV-14)....
Kamikaze attacking the USS Santa Fe off the coast of Taiwan
Photograph. Japanese kamikaze attcking the USS Santa Fe in open water. Official caption on front: "Jap suicide plane...
Kamikaze banking near US warship off the coast of Iwo Jima, Japan, 1945
Photograph. Japanese kamikaze banking in air near an American warship. Official caption on front: "Kamikaze attack off...

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