B5N torpedo bomber getting hit by anti-aircraft fire, Battle of Coral Sea, 8 May 1942 Obviously a Keith

Going donwn

A breeches buoy is put into service to transfer from a U.S. destroyer to a cruiser survivors of a ship, November 14, 1942 which had been sunk in naval action against the Japanese off the Santa Cruz Islands in the South pacific on October 26. The American Navy turned back the Japanese in the battle but lost an aircraft carrier and a destroyer. 

Rescue at sea

US Seaman shows the ropes to new Ship's Cat, &quot;Saipan&quot;, USS New Mexico, 1944.  While the circumstances are not the clearest, it would appear that little &quot;Saipan&quot; was rescued from the island in question in the course of  the invasion/battle during which the New Mexico supplied fire support to US ground forces.  Best regards, JR.