Sailors use holystones to grind away the dark blue-gray paint that covered the teak wood for camouflage. This photo was taken on the 01 veranda deck as USS Missouri steamed toward Hawaii in September 1945.

Sailors aboard USS Missouri 

USS Yorktown (CV-5) dead in the water after being hit by Japanese bombs on 4 June 1942.The ship was hit shortly after noon. This view was taken about an hour later, with fires still burning in her uptakes but other immediate repairs well advanced. F4F-4 fighters that had been parked at the forward end of the flight deck during the attack have been respotted aft, in take off position.(rudeerude)