World War II Album: The War in View #7

Designed as a battleship but converted to an aircraft carrier, HMS Eagle. Sunk in the Mediterranean in August 1942.

In the surprise night attack, British Fairey Swordfish torpedo planes hone in one after another on ships of the Italian fleet at Taranto.

HMS Illustrious steams in stealth to its launching point for the attack on the unsuspecting Italians at Taranto.

Captain Denis Boyd, Captain of the HMS Illustrious during the British attack on Taranto.

HMS Illustrious launching Fairey Albacore torpedo bombers.

Some of the finest ships of the Italian navy lie grounded, smoldering, partly submerged and leaking oil in the harbor at Taranto, Italy. The photograph was taken the morning after the raid by a British reconnaissance aircraft.

Supermarine Seafire landing on HMS Indomitable, being guided in by a "batsman". In lower right is twin QF 4.5-inch anti-aircraft gun mounting.

A combat-ready Naval Armed Guardsman is shown wearing his life vest and a radio headset used for communication between gun stations aboard his ship.

Onboard the merchant ship SS O.M. Bernuth, members of the vessel’s Naval Armed Guard operate a 4-inch deck gun.

During gunnery practice at sea in September 1943, Naval Armed Guardsmen learn the finer points of operating the 4-inch deck gun aboard a merchant ship.

In this bleak painting by American combat artist Mitchell Jamieson, members of a Naval Armed Guard contingent load and fire the forward deck gun aboard a merchant ship in pitching seas. Naval Historical Center.

U-boat U-96.

USS Washington BB-56 shortly before the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph NH 19-N-33803.

IJN Kirishima in March 1940 at Kure, Japan.

Drawing from after action damage report for USS South Dakota (BB-57), showing the damage taken by naval gunfire during the Second Naval Battle of Guadalcanal (14-15 November 1942). She was hit 27 times:

Damage Review
Tabulation of all hits
The projectiles that caused each Hit as estimated in this essay:
Hit 1 - 6-inch Type 0 HE or Type 4 base-fuzed Common projectile
Hit 2 - 14-inch Type 0 HE projectile
Hit 3 - 6-inch Type 0 HE or 5.5-inch Type 2 HE projectile
Hit 4 - 8-inch Type 91 AP projectile
Hit 5 - 8-inch Type 0 HE projectile
Hit 6 - 8-inch Type 91 AP projectile
Hit 7 - 5.5-inch base-fuzed Common projectile
Hit 8 - 5.5-inch base-fuzed Common projectile
Hit 9 - 8-inch Type 91 AP projectile
Hit 10 - 8-inch Type 91 AP projectile
Hit 11 - 14-inch Type 0 HE projectile
Hit 12 - 5.5-inch base-fuzed Common projectile
Hit 13 - 6-inch Type 4 base-fuzed Common projectile
Hit 14 - 6-inch Type 4 base-fuzed Common projectile
Hit 15 - 14-inch Type 3 Incendiary AA projectile
Hit 16 - 6-inch Type 4 base-fuzed Common projectile
Hit 17 - 8-inch Type 91 AP projectile
Hit 18 - 6-inch Type 4 base-fuzed Common projectile
Hit 19 - 5.5-inch base-fuzed Common projectile or 6-inch Type 4 Common projectile
Hit 20 - 6-inch Type 4 base fuze Common projectile
Hit 21 - 14-inch Type 1 AP cap head and windscreen
Hit 22 - 5-inch Type 0 HE projectile
Hit 23 - 14-inch Type 3 Incendiary AA projectile
Hit 24 - 6-inch Type 0 HE projectile
Hit 25 - 8-inch Type 91 AP projectile
Hit 26 - 14-inch Type 1 AP projectile
Hit 27 - 5-inch Type 0 HE projectile or fragment damage

Dozens of U.S. landing craft head for the beaches at Iwo Jima. Mount Suribachi looms in the background.

Aircraft, including the Northrop P-61 Black Widow and Martin B-26 Marauder, being transported on the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga.

Lt.Cmdr. Charles "Swede" Momsen is shown in a May 1939 photo, wearing the "Momsen Lung."

Highly decorated for his role in gaining victory over the Japanese at Midway, Captain Miles Browning was defeated by his most implacable enemy—himself.

Brazilian Navy (Marinha do Brasil) in World War II.

U-142 Type IID in Gadńsk, 17 October 1940.

Dutch cruiser Java, which was sunk by the Imperial Japanese Navy on 27 February 1942 during the Battle of the Java Sea.

"Invest in Victory", the slogan of Canada's 7th Victory Loan campaign, appears here on the port side of the SS Ashby Park, a merchant ship launched in Pictou, Nova Scotia. This campaign raised $1.5 billion dollars. October 1944.

Twin 20mm Oerlikons being cleaned on the HMIS Narabda late in the war.

Leading Toplass Buljeet-Daree and Leading Seaman Harvit Singh on board HM Indian war vessel Godavari, 1943. During his visit to the Home Fleet, King George VI made a special signal congratulating the crew of HMI Godavari on their smartness. This vessel had the honor of leading the Home Fleet out of the harbor for exercises. This photo shows two of the Sikh naval officers on board.

Finnish Navy (Merivoimat) in World War II.

An explosion at a military port facility in Helsinki, on September 14, 1941.

French Navy (Marine Nationale) in World War II.

French destroyer Mogador, in flames after being shelled during the British attack on Mers-el-Kebir, French Algeria, on July 3, 1940. After France signed an armistice with Germany, the British government moved to destroy what it could of the French Navy, trying to prevent the ships from falling into German hands. Several ships were badly damaged, one sunk, and 1,297 French sailors were killed in the attack.

French warships at Alexandria were eventually saved for the Allies. Under Egyptian “protection” since 1940, when they had demobilized themselves at Alexandria, they now became pawns in the political game the Allies had to play in North Africa. The Allies won the diplomatic battle and all remaining units of the French fleet joined with them in the war against the Axis.

French warships sunk after the British attack on Toulon. The French fleet at Toulon had been trouble for Axis and Allied leaders alike, ever since the Armistice had immobilized the 75 warships and lesser craft while shipping and sea power became dominant factors in a global war. On 27 November 1942, when German forces drove into the harbor after the invasion of North Africa to seize the French ships, Adm. de Laborde issued orders to scuttle the fleet and the great ships became a mass of tangled wreckage.

French warships sunk after the British attack on Toulon.

French battleship Dunkerque.

Light cruiser Navarra (ex-Reina Victoria Eugenia, ex Republica) with Spanish flag as neutrality mark painted on her hull alongside with a submarine during World War II.

HMCS Weyburn (K173).

HMCS Whitby (K346).

HMCS Windflower (K155).

HMCS Woodstock (K238).

HMCS Woodstock (K238) with a depth charge exploding astern of her.

RCN corvette in drydock.

HMCS Arnprior (K494) alongside in St John's, Newfoundland with the surrendered U-190 across the jetty from her. Motor Launch Q095 in the background.

HMCS Arnprior (K494).

HMCS Arnprior (K494), center, and HMCS Hallowell (K666), right. Ship on left unidentified.

HMCS Arnprior (K494).

The White Ensign flies over the Kriegsmarine Naval Ensign on the surrendered U-190 at St. John's, Newfoundland. HMCS Arnprior (K494) in the background.

Three Castle class corvettes alongside with HMCS Arnprior (K494) inboard, believed to be St. John's, Newfoundland.

Unidentified sailor on HMCS Arnprior (K494) holding the ship's mascot.

Unidentified sailor on HMCS Arnprior (K494).

Unidentified sailor asleep on the deck of the HMCS Arnprior (K494). You learn to sleep when you get the chance.

Unidentified sailors on the HMCS Arnprior (K494).

Unidentified sailor on HMCS Arnprior (K494).

Shipmates on HMCS Arnprior (K494).

Unknown sailor by the ready-use magazine on HMCS Arnprior (K494).

Unknown sailors by the forward gun on HMCS Arnprior (K494). Based on their dress and the casual look of things they likely are doing gun drills alongside.

Caption on news photo: When Wrens came aboard HMCS Arnprior (K494) in Newfoundland for a ship's party, Leading Seaman Marshall Burns of Ottawa thought they'd like to see the wheelhouse of their fine Castle class corvette. Interested onlookers are Wren Margaret Wood of Montreal, Wren Joan Shannon of Marmora, Ontario; and Wren Gwen Bill of Red Deer, Alberta.

HMCS Bowmanville (K493).

HMCS Copper Cliff (K495).

Depth charge exploding astern of HMCS Copper Cliff (K495).

HMCS Copper Cliff (K495).

HMCS Hespeler (K489).

HMCS Humberstone (K497).

HMCS Humberstone (K497), St. Johns, Newfoundland.

HMCS Huntsville (K499).

HMCS Kincardine (K490).

HMCS Leaside (K492) on the day of her commissioning.

HMCS Orangeville (K491).

HMCS Petrolia (K498).

HMCS St. Thomas (K488).

HMCS Tillsonburg (K496).

HMCS Regina (K234).

HMCS Regina (K234), Pictou, Nova Scotia.

HMCS Regina (K234).

View from HMCS Assiniboine of an unidentified Royal Navy destroyer taking over the escort of Convoy HX180 from its Royal Canadian Navy escort, 19 March 1942.

Damaged stern of the destroyer HMCS Saguenay. Saguenay was rammed by S.S. AZRA south of Cape Race, and lost her stern when her depth charges exploded. November 18, 1942.

Ship's Company of the destroyer HMCS Skeena, St. John's, Newfoundland, 21 November 1943.

Messdeck of the destroyer HMCS Iroquois, Plymouth, England, October 1944.

Ship's Company of the destroyer HMCS Athabaskan, Plymouth, England, April 1944.

Officers in the wardroom of the destroyer HMCS St. Francis, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, April 1943.

Ship's Company of the destroyer HMCS Gatineau, St. John's, Newfoundland, 21 August 1943.

Gun crews at readiness aboard the destroyer HMCS Chaudiere, Britain, 7 January 1944.

Off-duty personnel holding a singsong aboard the destroyer HMCS Ottawa at sea, 22 November 1943.

Able Seamen Brignull and E. Groombridge relaxing aboard the destroyer HMCS Saguenay at sea, 30 October 1941.

Lieutenant-Commander Robert P. Welland, DSC, Commanding Officer of the destroyer HMCS Assiniboine, England, August 1944.

Commander Harry G. DeWolf, Commanding Officer, on the bridge of the destroyer HMCS Haida, 5 May 1944.

Survivors of the sinking of the destroyer HMCS Athabaskan, which was torpedoed on 29 April 1944. England, May 1944.

Personnel who survived the sinking of the destroyer HMCS Skeena near Reykjavik, Iceland, on 25 October 1944. England, December 1944.

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