Navy

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  ‘Them days is gone forever’ (American poster by Alvah Posen/ U.S. Government Printing Office for Navy Bureau of Medicine and Surgery (BUMED)/ Office of War Information (OWI). United States of America, 1943).

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  Gerald Ford, jumper on left, plays basketball in the forward elevator well of the aircraft carrier USS Monterey in mid-1944.

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  Sailors from the Ottoman Navy, gathered on the Brandenburg class pre-dreadnought battleship, Barbaros Hayreddin – on the Aegean Sea, in the First Balkan War, c. 1913.

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  A US Navy diver, covered in oil after returning from the USS Arizona after the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 1941

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  Dead USN sailor, Naval Air Station Kaneohe, Oahu, US Territory of Hawaii, 7 Dec 1941

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  ‘90,000 tons of diplomacy’ (American poster for Northrop Grumman Corporation/ Newport News Shipbuilding. Featuring the USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77) aircraft carrier. United States of America, ca. 2008).

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  Man the guns, Join the Navy (1942)

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  The crew of USS Miami (CL-89) cleans up after bombarding the Palau Islands in 1944

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  The crew of USS Miami (CL-89) cleans up after bombarding the Palau Islands in 1944

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  A WWI US Navy veteran of Japanese descent arrives at a Japanese internment camp, April 1942 (1280×998)

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  The crew of the 11th Doolittle Raider “Hari Kari-er on the deck of the USS Hornet whilst transiting the Pacific Ocean, April 1942. The crew of the B-25 bailed out over the border of Anhui and Zheijang provinces and were assisted by Chinese forces.

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  «The empire strikes back» The cover of Newsweek magazine, which was published on April 19, 1982, against the background of an image of the British aircraft carrier HMS Hermes heading south from Britain towards the Falkland Islands, which were recently occupied by Argentina. 1982.

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  WAVES trainees eating a meal, Naval Training Center, Norman, Oklahoma, United States, Feb 1943

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  This is a photo of Lou Conter, who passed away today at the age 102. Lou was the last remaining survivor of the USS Arizona, which was sunk during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

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  After the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, some sailors were trapped on the USS West Virginia and the USS Oklahoma. One group of men survived 16 days, which they tallied on the wall of the storeroom where they were trapped. No one wanted guard duty because of the incessant banging and screaming.

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  King Neptune oversees a “Line crossing ceremony” for crossing the Equator on USS Lexington CV-16 in Early 1944. Sailors who have already crossed the Equator are called Shellbacks or Sons of Neptune. Those who have not yet crossed the Equator are nicknamed Pollywogs.

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  USS Kearsarge (BB-5) illuminated with electric lights, while visiting Portsmough, England in July 1903.

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  The Pacific Navy (1907)

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  Totally Straight Navy sub recruitment, US, 1943

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  Physical training on the quarterdeck of the cruiser HMS Argonaut, Algeria, December 14-19, 1942.

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