Secondary batteries of an American cruiser formed this pattern of smoke rings as guns from the warship blasted at the Japanese on Makin Island in the Gilberts before U.S. forces invaded the atoll on November 20, 1943. (AP Photo) #  

Smoke pattern

Torpedoed Japanese destroyer Yamakaze, photographed through periscope of USS Nautilus, 25 June 1942. The Yamakaze sank within five minutes of being struck, there were no survivors. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy) #  

Torpedoed

US Navy carrier-borne Grumman Hellcat and Vought Corsair fighters overfly (more like swarm) above the battleship USS Missouri on the occasion of Japan's formal surrender to the Allies, signed aboard that ship, 2 September, 1945.  Best regards, JR.