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

Original caption reads: Admiral Nimitz, on July 28, 1944, explains U.S. naval strategy for (left to right) General MacArthur, President Roosevelt and Admiral Leahy.

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.

The ASROC Fire-Control System is the first shipboard installation of a digital computer. The computer receives electrical signals of target course and speed, wind direction and speed, and attack ship course, speed, pitch, and roll. These signals are used to compute future position of a target, launcher angle, and distance a missile will fly. The ASROC Fire-Control System was developed for the Navy under the technical direction of the U.S. Naval Ordnance Test Station, China Lake and Pasadena, California, by Librascope Division, General Precision, Inc, Glendale, California. June 1960. U.S. Navy Photo

Basil Dominic Izzi, U.S. sailor who, with two Dutch companions, survived 83 days on a raft in the South Atlantic, points to a picture taken of the rescue during a visit with Rear Admiral C.H. Woodward, USN (Ret.), head of the Navys Industrial Incentive Division. Izzi, completely recovered from the ordeal, will make a tour of war plants under the auspices of the division.

Corporal Alvin Tony Ghazlo, senior bayonet and unarmed combat instructor at Montford Point, North Carolina, disarms his assistant, Private Ernest Judo Jones, taken in the 1940s.

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.