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USS Franklin nearly obscured by smoke and flames after 19 March attack US Navy photo 80-G-49131

USS Franklin March 14-24 1945 Deck Logs

March 19, 2026
19 March 1945 deck log of USS FRANKLIN showing cruising disposition and ship's status. National Archives Box 3665 P118-A1. Author...
19 march / Air Group 5 / US Navy / USS Franklin
USS Franklin Deck Log for the afternoon and evening of 16 February 1945. It mentions the deaths of two pilots in a training exercise.

For US Naval Aviators, Non-Combat Deaths Outnumbered Those in Combat

February 16, 2026
A Curtiss SB2C-3 "Hell-diver" bomber takes a "wave-off" while attempting to land in March 1945. Landing signal officer's platform is...
Air Group 5 / US Navy / USS Franklin
“EU Pixelated” by Creative Commons was cropped from an image generated using Artificial Intelligence (AI) by the DALL-E 2 AI platform with the text prompt “pixel art of computer code streaming across an EU flag.” CC dedicates any rights it holds to the image to the public domain.

AI—Artificial Intelligence or Actual Ignorance?

December 9, 2025
Picture of World War II Essex-class carrier generated by AI. Count the mistakes. AI still has a long way to...
Artificial Intelligence / Lt. (j.g.) Donald Gary / Research / US Navy / USS Franklin
A group of US Navy officers including women who are WAVES attend the commissioning of the USS Franklin, 14 October 1943. The picture shows a vew of the ship's bow, wrapped in bunting taken from a lower angle so the bow looms overhead.

Websites Essential to Researching U.S. Navy Ships and Crews

October 14, 2025
The USS Franklin (CV-13) is floated out of her building dock immediately after christening, at the Newport News Shipbuilding and...
US Navy / USS Franklin
USS Franklin Listing to one side after being attacked on March 19, 1945 as seen from USS Santa Fe

Stories From The USS Franklin: Caught Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea

September 23, 2025
USS Franklin nearly obscured by smoke and flames after 19 March attack US Navy photo 80-G-49131 Last week, I came...
Gunner's Mate 3/c Stanley Olander / Oral Histories / Torpedoman1/c Alfred Amos / US Navy
Title Slide of the documentary, Navy Medicine At War. It shows a somewhat blurry image of an American POW in the presence of what appears to be two Japanese officials.

Documentary: Navy Medicine at War: Final Victory

September 15, 2025
This is the sixth and last in a series of blog posts about US Navy medicine produced by the US...
Books, Movies, Videos, and other media / Medical Personnel / Oral Histories / US Navy
Ensign Jane Kendeigh, the first Navy flight nurse to reach Iwo Jima ministers to a wounded marine on 6 March 1945. She is bent over him as he lays on a stretcher, his head wrapped in bandages.

Documentary: Navy Medicine at War: Stepping Stones To Tokyo

August 26, 2025
U.S. Navy doctors and corpsmen tend to wounded Marines at a first aid station on 20 February 1945. Navy Chaplain...
Medical Personnel / Oral Histories / US Navy
This is the famous picture of US Army troops storming the Normandy coastline. The photographer is standing in a landing craft taking a picture of the men as they wade through the surf in front of him.

Navy Medicine At Normandy D-Day

August 11, 2025
This is the famous picture of US soldiers wading ashore at Normandy on June 6, 1944. It's one thing to...
D-Day / Medical Personnel / Oral Histories / US Navy
Taken just before the Bataan Death March starts, more than 100 US soldiers are shown sitting down while being guarded by several Japanese soldiers carrying rifles with bayonets. A Japanese photographer is shown on the right adding film to his camera.

Bataan Death March and POW Oral Histories

July 28, 2025
Even though I was only four years old, I remember watching him blink. Unlike everyone else, Paul* blinked by squeezing...
Medical Personnel / Oral Histories / US Navy
USS Franklin In New York Harbor April 1945 80-G-K-4760

May 1944 and May 1945 Were Notable Months For USS Franklin CV-13

May 20, 2025
Caption: USS FRANKLIN (CV-13) arrives at New York Navy Yard for repair of battle damage, circa 28 April 1945. Photographed...
Anniversaries / Essex-class aircraft carriers / US Navy / USS Franklin

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