Sailors manning the 40-mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns on the heavy cruiser USS Astoria (CL-90), helplessly watch the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CV-6) engulfed in fire, near the Japanese island of Kyushu. - March 18, 1945.

Enterprise burning

American battleship USS Idaho (BB-42) during the operation to capture the Marshall Islands.

USS Idaho

Reconnaissance seaplane Vought OS2U-3 Kingfisher, piloted by Lt. Fred Hunter, takes off from a catapult on USS Detroit CL-8, Omaha-class light cruiser,  in the Aleutian Islands.