USS Iowa (BB-61) entering floating drydock ABSD-2 for temporary repairs, Seeadler Harbor, Manus, Admiralty Islands, 28 Dec 1944
Floating drydock USS ABSD-2 was a non-powered naval vessel designed to be able to deployed, with relative speed, to combat zones for ship repair operations, thus saving the time necessary to transport a damaged ship back to the continental United States.

USS Iowa

The view of the snow-covered deck of American aircraft carrier USS Ranger (CV-4) in one of the ports of the North Atlantic. On the flight-deck are Douglas SBD-5 aircraft of the 41st Bombardment Squadron (VB-41) and Grumman TBF-1 Avenger planes of the 4th Torpedo Squadron (VT-4).
 


USS Ranger (CV-4)

Hospital Ship 65 After D-Day Normandy June 1944 