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Photo # 80-G-331079:  Escort carriers steam in column through heavy western Pacific seas, March 1945

Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Makin Island (CVE-93), 1944-1947 --
Photos taken from or by the Ship


This page features selected views of other subjects, taken from USS Makin Island or by her photographers.

For more images concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Makin Island (CVE-93), 1944-1947.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: 80-G-301251

    USS Patterson (DD-392)


    Refueling at sea from an unidentified oiler, while taking part in the Lingayen operation, 12 January 1945.
    Photographed from USS Makin Island (CVE-93).

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

    Online Image: 115KB; 740 x 605 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: 80-G-310939

    Iwo Jima Operation, 1945


    Iwo Jima during the pre-invasion bombardment, 17 February 1945, looking north with Mount Suribachi in the foreground.
    Photographed from an airplane based on USS Makin Island (CVE-93).

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

    Online Image: 62KB; 740 x 600 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: 80-G-310951

    Iwo Jima Operation, 1945


    Initial waves of amphibious tractors (LVT) head for the landing beaches on Iwo Jima's southeastern coast, at about 0900 Hrs. on 19 February 1945.
    USS Tennessee (BB-43) is at left.
    Photographed from an airplane based on USS Makin Island (CVE-93).

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

    Online Image: 65KB; 740 x 600 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: 80-G-331079

    Escort Aircraft Carriers (CVE)


    Steam in column through heavy western Pacific seas, probably in the vicinity of Ulithi Atoll after the Iwo Jima campaign, 10 March 1945.
    Photographed from USS Makin Island (CVE-93).

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

    Online Image: 75KB; 740 x 605 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: NH 42812

    USS Paul Hamilton (DD-590)


    Comes alongside USS Makin Island (CVE-93) during the Iwo Jima campaign, 11 March 1945.
    She is wearing camouflage Measure 32, Design 3d.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 85KB; 630 x 675 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 94876

    USS Lunga Point
    (CVE-94)

    Pitching heavily during a western Pacific storm, October 1945. Another escort carrier is steaming astern, beyond her starboard quarter.
    Photographed from USS Makin Island (CVE-93), circa 1944-45.

    Courtesy of PHC John Highfill, USN (Retired).

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 62KB; 740 x 590 pixels

     


    For more images concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Makin Island (CVE-93), 1944-1947.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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