Escort carrier USS Copahee (ACV-12) loaded on deck a cargo of captured (13) A6M5 Zeros, (1) B5N Kate, spare parts and 37 engines, to be used for intelligence and training. She arrived back at San Diego, California on July 28, 1944. 

Captured Japanese Aircraft

The American destroyer USS Laffey (DD-459) with surviving members of the crew of the sunken aircraft carrier USS Wasp (CV-7) on board. Presumably, the picture was taken off the island of Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides archipelago.
   The Wasp was sunk by a Japanese submarine on September 15, 1942.
   The image on board the destroyer clearly shows 127-mm guns, depth charges and life rafts. In the background is the light cruiser USS Juneau (CL-52).



US destroyer with survivors

U.S. soldiers and Army nurses  at Naples, Italy, wading ashore from LCI-242. The nurse in the foreground carries her boots around her neck for keeping it dry; Naples, Italy, November 4, 1943. 