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World War Ship Stock Photos

Browse 16,676 world war ship photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more photos and images.

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Battleship USS Missouri in Pearl Harbor

World War II, Battleship, US Navy

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World War II, World War I, Navy

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Military Battleship Docked at Norfolk, VA, Navy USS Wisconsin

Norfolk - Virginia, Navy, Warship

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USS Alabama detail

US Navy, Navy, Warship

American Soldiers from 20th Armored Division and units of 9th Army, celebrate on SS John Ericsson as they return home, Pier 87, North River, New York...

American Soldiers from 20th Armored Division and units of 9th Army, celebrate on SS John Ericsson as they return home, Pier 87, North (Hudson) River, New York City, New York, USA, photo by Al Ravenna, World Telegram & Sun, August 6, 1945

USA, World War II, Army Soldier

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Military Ships and Elements

Aircraft Carrier, In Silhouette, Military Ship

Launch of a "Liberty Ship" cargo ship at the Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation shipyard as part of the Emergency Shipbuilding Program during the World...

Launch of a Liberty Ship.

With the Empire State Building and the Manhattan skyline as a backdrop and escorted by tugboats the Midway-class aircraft carrier of the United...

Brooklyn Bridge

Shipyard, World War II

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Sunset behind USS North Carolina

US Navy, Military Ship, Battleship

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Close-up front of Battleship U.S.S. Alabama with retro tint

Warship, Military Ship, Battleship

Rear view of an American military officer looking out over the Pacific Ocean, naval vessels in silhouette on the horizon, during the Battle of Iwo...

World War II - Battle Of Iwo Jima

1945, Pacific Ocean, Ship

Liberty ship being fitted out at an American shipyard, circa 1943. Liberty ships were built in large numbers by U.S shipyards for wartime use by the...

World War II, War, Container Ship

Destroyer approaches an aircraft carrier during the Manila offensive in the Philippines. Original Publication: The radar antennas have been censored...

Naval Task Force

Pacific Ocean, World War II, Black And White

Group of shipyard workers dwarfed by the French ocean liner SS Normandie after she was righted at Pier 88, Manhattan, New York City, New York,...

SS Normandie, Pier 88, NYC

Missiles streak through the sky from a US Navy LSM firing at Japanese installations on Okinawa, Japan, during World War II .

World War II, Japan, Archival

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Digitally restored vintage World War II photo of American troops wading ashore on Omaha Beach during the D-Day invasion on June 6, 1944.

D Day, 1944, Normandy

Imperial Japanese Navy airplanes attacking the US Navy deep-water naval base on Pearl Harbour on December 7, 1941.

Attack on Pearl Harbour.

Pearl Harbor Attack, War, Bombing

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Military Ship, Warship, USA

The USS Shaw exploding during the Japanese attack on the US Pacific fleet at their base in Pearl Harbour on the island of Oahu, Hawaii.

Pearl Harbor Attack, Naval Base, USA

The USS Missouri, a US Navy IOWA-class battleship, firing the 16-inch guns of its two forward turrets over the water during shakedown gunnery...

World War II, Battleship, Pacific Ocean

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Aerial view of the various naval vessels around the beaches of Normandy in northernmost France.

D Day, World War II, 1944

One of 402 Japanese planes shot down in a one-day serial battle off the Marianas, as it attempted to attack the USS Kitrun Bay, near the Mariana...

Japanese Dive Bomber

Japan, Navy, Explosive

1930s USN PACIFIC FLEET AIRCRAFT CARRIERS SARATOGA AND LEXINGTON SEEN FROM FLIGHT DECK OF CARRIER RANGER BEFORE WORLD WAR II

1930s USN PACIFIC FLEET

World War II, Aircraft Carrier, Cockpit

The giant British transatlantic liner, Queen Mary, is pictured from a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter as it arrived in New York Bay bringing more than...

Aerial View of Queen Mary Arriving with Troops

World War II, RMS Queen Mary, Arrival

View of clouds of black smoke rising from the USS 'Bunker Hill' aircraft carrier after it was hit twice by Japanese Kamikaze planes during World War...

USS Bunker Hill Burns

Japan, War, World War II

Japanese battleship squadron led by Battleship Fuso during manoeuvres off Malaya. Fuso and Kirisima were built at the beginning of the First World...

Jap Fleet Malaya

Japan, World War II, War

North American B-25 Mitchell medium bomber from the 38th Bombardment Group of the Fifth United States Army Air Force attacks Imperial Japanese...

World War Two Pacific 1943

World War II, Black And White, Ship

Japanese cruiser in Manila Bay off the Philippines, leaves a frantic wave as she tries in vain to avoid the rain of bombs aimed at her by...

Air & Sea Fight

Japan, Black And White, Pacific Ocean

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Aerial view/Fighter aircraft used for national defense

Military, Aerospace Industry, Fighter Plane

American warships use smoke screens to impede Japanese air attacks in Leyte Gulf during the Battle of Leyte in the Philippines, December 1944. The...

Battle of Leyte

World War II, Pacific Ocean, Black And White

Nine liberty cargo ships docked at the outfitting yard of the California Shipbuilding Corporation are readied for delivery to the U.S. Maritime...

World War II, Ship

165th Infantry assault wave attacking Butaritari, Yellow Beach Two, find it slow going in the coral bottom waters. Japanese machine gun fire from the...

Infantry Wade Towards Smoke of Battle

World War II, Sea, Army Soldier

Gunners of the Norwegian Merchant Fleet in action during World War II.

Gunners of the Norwegian Merchant Fleet

Japan- Mount Fujiyama fills the horizon and provides a fitting backdrop for the Allied naval might gathering Tokyo Bay as the sun set on Japan's...

Gen View Warships W/Mt. Fuji In Bkgrd

Ship, Tokyo Bay, Japan

The giant British transatlantic liner, Queen Mary, is pictured from a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter as it arrived in New York Bay bringing more than...

Aerial View of Queen Mary Arriving with Troops

Arrival, World War II, Coast Guard

Burning Japanese aircraft carrier Shokaku takes evasive action to avoid American bombs during the Battle of the Coral Sea. The line of her wake shows...

Japan, Coral Sea, World War II

An American B25 Mitchell bomber blasts a Japanese warship just off the north west coast of New Zealand. The ship was eventually sunk off New Hanover....

Pacific Ocean, World War II, Black And White

Franklin burns after being hit by bombs from Japanese dive bombers. View from the USS Santa Fe, ca. 1941-1945.

USS Franklin, Dive Bomber Casualty

Bow-side view of the SS George Washington Carver, the second liberty ship to be named for an outstanding African American, was launched at the...

Launch Of The SS George Washington Carver

World War II, Ship

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British battle cruiser, 1914

Aerial view showing bombs exploding near the Japanese battleship Haruna as it endures an attack by carrier based American aircraft during World War...

Japanese Battleships Under Attack

Aerial photograph of the port city of Naha in the southern part of the island of Okinawa shows freighters and fishing boats, a road busy with...

Port Of Naha, Okinawa, Japan

Okinawa Prefecture

Radar, called the silent weapon of World War II & credited with helping to "Light the Road" to victory, owes much of its rapid development to the...

Fighting ships of the US Navy maneuver around the waters of Ulithi Atoll, December 1944. In the foreground, is the USS Wasp, followed by the USS...

American Aircraft Carriers Near Ulithi Atoll

Luxury transatlantic liner SS Queen Mary sailing up the North River on arrival at New York with 14,000 returning US soldiers on board.

USA, Arrival, World War II

United States Navy Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat single-engined carrier fighter aircraft from Fighting Squadron Two , piloted by Ensign Byron M Johnson,...

World War Two: The Pacific 1943

World War II, Marshall Islands, USS Enterprise - Aircraft Carrier

An aerial view of the wreckage of German warship, in Negotin, Serbia on September 13, 2024. A German warship, dating back to World War II, has...

World War II-era warship emerges from Serbia's Danube River amid low water levels

View of the wreckage of German warship, in Negotin, Serbia on September 13, 2024. A German warship, dating back to World War II, has resurfaced in...

World War II-era warship emerges from Serbia's Danube River amid low water levels

This photograph shows the remains of the German tugboat wreckage marked as UJ-106 in the Danube near the village of Prahovo, Serbia, on August 26,...

SERBIA-GERMANY-ENVIRONMENT-HISTORY-WWII

digitally restored war propaganda poster. this vintage world war two poster features a sinking ship on the ocean. it declares - loose lips might sink ships. - world war ship stock illustrations

Digitally restored war propaganda poster. This vintage World War Two poster features a sinking ship on the ocean. It declares - Loose Lips Might Sink Ships.

World War II, Ship, Poster

View of the radio and radar antennas on the masthead of the US Navy aircraft carrier USS Hornet , August 15, 1944.

USS Hornet's Masthead

An aerial view of the wreckage of German warship, in Negotin, Serbia on September 13, 2024. A German warship, dating back to World War II, has...

World War II-era warship emerges from Serbia's Danube River amid low water levels

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Diving on the SS Thistlegorm wreck in Egypt

Shipwreck, Ship, Sea

Postcard published by the Partito Nazionale Fascista depicting a gigantic Japanese Samurai warrior, backed by Nazi German, Italian and Japanese...

Italy/Japan: Postcard published by the Partito Nazionale Fascista (National Fascist Party) depicting a gigantic Japanese Samurai warrior, backed by Nazi German, Italian and Japanese flags, smashing Allied warships with his sword. Milano, 1943

Japan, Propaganda, World War II

Yamato , named after the ancient Japanese Yamato Province, was the lead ship of the Yamato class of battleships that served with the Imperial...

Japan: The Imperial Japanese battleship Yamato during sea trials c. 1941.

Battleship, Ship, Japan

Circa 1915 Shows the SS Mongolia which was later the Navy ship the USS Mongolia . Creator: Bain News Service.

USA, World War I, Ship

Burning and damaged ships at Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941. Left to right are the USS West Virginia, the USS Tennessee and the USS Arizona.

Pearl Harbor Attack, USS Arizona

The large calibre guns of the German battleship Scharnhorst being prepared for use. She was sunk by the British navy off Norway in December 1943, in...

Guns Of The Scharnhorst

Women and children on the gangway as they board the ship transporting them from the 'Panama Canal Zone' detention camp in Panama, 6th April 1942....

World War II - 'Panama Canal Zone' Detention Camp

Gunners of Flak-Abteilung 606, Deutsches Afrikakorps wearing the tropical issue DAK Tropenhelm pith helmet, operate a Flak 30 Light self-propelled 20...

World War Two: North Africa 1941

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