Two enlisted men of the ill-fated U.S. Navy aircraft carrier Liscome Bay, torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in the Gilbert Islands, are buried at sea from the deck of a Coast Guard-manned assault transport.  November 1943.  (Coast Guard)
Exact Date Shot Unknown
NARA FILE #:  026-G-3182
WAR &amp; CONFLICT BOOK #:  1344

Sailors Buried at Sea

Task Force 58 raid on Japan.  40mm guns firing aboard USS HORNET on 16 February 1945, as the carrier's planes were raiding Tokyo.  Note expended shells and ready-service ammunition at right.  February 1945.  Lt. Comdr.  Charles Kerlee.  (Navy)
NARA FILE #:  080-G-413915
WAR &amp; CONFLICT BOOK #:  1239

40mm Guns on USS Hornet

A PT marksman provides a striking camera study as he draws a bead with his 50 cal. machine gun on his boat off New Guinea.  July 1943.  (Navy)
Exact Date Shot Unknown
NARA FILE #:  080-G-53871
WAR &amp; CONFLICT BOOK #:  941