U.S. Navy seaman relaxes as two Coast Guardsmen scrape a thick coating of oil from his body.  The survivor's ship, the USS LANSDALE, was sunk by Nazi planes off the coast of North Africa.  April 1944.  (Coast Guard)
Exact Date Shot Unknown
NARA FILE #:  026-G-2140
WAR &amp; CONFLICT BOOK #:  951

Lone Survivor of Sunken Ship

The U.S.S. Queenfish rescuing British and Australian prisoners of war, survivors of the Japanese ship Rakuyo, Maru, sunk in the China Sea by the U.S.S. Sealion, September 1944.  (Navy)
Exact Date Shot Unknown
NARA FILE #:  080-G-272803
WAR &amp; CONFLICT BOOK #:  949

Sea Rescue

Japanese torpedo bomber explodes in air after direct hit by 5 inch shell from U.S. aircraft carrier as it attempted an unsuccessful attack on carrier, off Kwajalein.  U.S.S. Yorktown, December 4, 1943.  CPhoM. Alfred N. Cooperman.  (Navy)
NARA FILE #:  080-G-415001
WAR &amp; CONFLICT BOOK #:  974