USS Houston CL-81 (1943)
#otd USS Houston CL-81 being christened, by Mrs. Claude Hamill, at Newport News, Virginia, 19 June 1943. #usshouston #cl81 #wwii...
Moffett Field (1946)
#otd View down runway 32 Naval Air Station Moffett Field, California, 18 June 1946. #nasmoffettfield #flynavy #moffettfield #sanjose...
Saipan Operations WWII
#otd Japanese twin engine plane is shot down while attacking TG52.11 escort carriers off Saipan, 18 June 1944. Seen from USS Kitkun Bay...
USS LST-340
#otd Japanese air raid on Guadalcanal, 16 June 1943. USS LST-340 burning after being hit by a Japanese bomb. LST-340 was run ashore off...
Dutch Harbor Attack 3 June 1942
#otd Siems Drake warehouse afire, following the attack by Japanese carrier aircraft. Note fire fighting parties at work, and S. S....
Saratoga’s air group (1939)
#otd at Naval Air Station Seattle, planes from the USS Saratoga CV-3 air group in the hangar at the station. Planes in the foreground...
Flight Ops aboard USS Saratoga CV-3 (1934)
#otd Boeing F4B-4 taking off over the stern, as the USS Saratoga CV-3 as she makes 15 knots astern, 17 May 1934. #usssaratoga #cv3 #f4b...
Sub Hunting in the Aleutians
#otd A U.S. Navy destroyer drops depth charges on a suspected submarine contact off Attu while covering the invasion of that island, 13...
USS Goff DD-247 (1932)
#otd USS Goff DD-247 backs away from a pier, prior to departing the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania on 5 May 1932. Note the band...
Strato-Lab
#otd Lieutenant Commander Victor A. Prather, MC USN dressed in his space suit, just prior to entering the balloon gondola on board USS...
