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Normandy fishermen sail again. July 26, 1944, was a momentous day in the life of every fisherman in the Cherbourg Peninsula. Half an hour before dawn, the fishing fleet sailed out on masse, the Tricolor fluttering from every boat, free for the first time in four years. Ever since D-Day landings, the Normandy fishermen ha dobeyed the Allied Expeditionary Force order to refrain from fishing for reasons ...

H.M.S. Hood leaves for Gibraltar. Portsmouth, Feb. 21, the giant battle cruiser, H.M.S. Hood, seen above, made an impressive picture as she left here this afternoon for Gibraltar to rejoin the Home Fleet for the Spring cruise. Hoodis the flagship of vice admiral S.R. Bailey, commanding the battle cruiser squadron.

Another U.S. submarine launched. Another submarine slides down the ...... .... ...... U.S. port, the second in as many weeks to be launched by the boat company located at the port. The submarine soon will join the growing U.S. undersea fleet in the Pacific where these ships are training Japanese supply lines seriously. American submarines have sunk 573 Japanese ships since the war began, the Navy reported ...

Allied might at Normandy beachhead. Fleets of American transport and landing craft swarm close to a beach in Normandy disgorging masses of reinforcements and supplies for the U.S. troops who liberated the Cotentin Peninsula, the deep-water port of cherbourg and the important communication center of La Haye du Puits. Barrage ballons float overhead as protection against German strafing planes which failed ...

Een door de Amerikanen met PC-1 klasse aangeduid patrouillevaartuig gefotografeerd vanuit een vliegtuig van het vliegkampschip 'Yorktown' op 14 november 1944 in de Baai van Manilla Behoort tot een verzameling fotodrukken van oorlogshandelingen en -schade aan vaartuigen van Japan ten tijde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog.

Normandy fishermen sail again. July 26, 1944, was a momentous day in the life of every fisherman in the Cherbourg Peninsula. Half an hour before dawn, the fishing fleet sailed out on masse, the Tricolor fluttering from every boat, free for the first time in four years. Ever since D-Day landings, the Normandy fishermen ha dobeyed the Allied Expeditionary Force order to refrain from fishing for reasons ...

Een Martin 'B-26 Marauder' tijdens een bombardement boven Normandië. 'BOMBS AWAY. A B-26 Medium bomber of the Ninth U.S. Air Force drop four 1.000 pound bombs on a target inside the enemy coast in Western Europe. A fleet of these fast, twin-engined Marauders, each capable of making at least two missions daily are now operating from British bases.'

U.S. Military chiefs view progress on French front. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Expeditionary Force, standing between General George C. Marshall, Chief of Staff U.S. Army, and Admiral Ernest J. King, Commander in Chief U.S. Fleet, questions officers of a combat unit during his inspection tour of Allied beachheads in Northern France. An American soldier climbs ...

Officieren en manschappen van geallieerde marines gedecoreerd in het Admiralty House. Admiral of the Fleet en First Sea Lord, sir Dudley Pound, reikt de D.S.C. uit aan een Poolse officier van de "Sokol"

The Malta Scene. British Government help peg food prices. The Royal Navy became the cornet stone of Maltese econemy. Not only because of the 15,000 Islanders once employed in the Royal Dockyards but also because the Mediterranean Fleet brought shore in Valletta hordes of Quick=spending sailors.

Van de Nederlandse strijdkrachten telde de marine de meeste mensen. In tegenstelling tot de landmacht was de marine er begin mei 1940 in geslaagd een aanzienlijk deel van personeel en materieel uit Nederland te evacueren. Daarnaast bevond zich in de Indische wateren het marinesmaldeel dat belast was met de verdediging van de archipel. Naast het escorteren van konvooien hebben Nederlandse marineschepen ...