USS California (BB-44), commissioned on 10 August 1921, was moored by itself at the southern end of Battleship Row on 7 December 1941. She was hit by two torpedoes and a bomb, which caused the ship to settle in the mud. Only her superstructure remained

SBD Dauntless during Battle of the Philippine Sea, June 18-19, 1944.

US Navy landing craft awaits orders to make its run to the beach.

USS Shaw exploding during Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor 7 December 1941.

Torokina Field, Bougainville @ 15-19 December, 1943. Marines manning a 75 mm. pack howitzer position at the field. Note the captured Japanese battle flag.

On board USS Lexington (CV-16), LCdr. Paul D. Buie, CO of VF-16, briefs his pilots for an upcoming mission, during the Gilberts Operation, November-December 1943.

VAdm. Marc A. Mitscher, an early naval aviator and commanding officer of the carrier Hornet during the Doolittle raid on Japan in April 1942 and the Battle of Midway in June 1942, was Commander Task Force 38 during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. See Cutler,

Coast Guard Signalman First Class Douglas A. Munro protects withdrawing Marines at Guadalcanal. During WWII the U.S. Coast Guard performed a wide variety of duties. One of the more important tasks was manning amphibious craft for the U.S. Navy. It was

A demolition crew of the Sixth Marine Division watched as one of their dynamite charges took out a Japanese cave on Okinawa.

A fallen U.S. soldier

The right door gunner of a Navy armed gunship prepared for a firing run over a Viet Cong ambush site in the Mekong Delta. The helicopter was answering a distress call from the burning river patrol boat (PBR) which had been hit by recoilless rifle fire m

USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) says Happy Holidays to the skies, December 1994.

Commodore Commandant Ellsworth Price Bertholf, USCG. Photograph was taken in 1898 when Bertohalf was a 2nd Lieutenant in the U.S. Revenue Cutter Service and a member of the Jarvis Overland Expedition.

Naval Reserve Captain Edmond J. Moran receives urgent and specific instructions from Supreme Allied Commander Europe General Dwight D Eisenhower on board the destroyer USS Thompson after D-Day. The general ordered Moran back to the United States for more supplies and equipment to keep the invasion going. Photo courtesy of Edmond J. Moran, Jr.