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Found neat photos on the naval historical command website.

First up are ww2 navy divers.

Divers standing in front of a decompression chamber, while they were working to salvage ships sunk in the 7 December 1941 Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor
Catalog #: NH 63921

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Description: Divers emerging from a gas-filled compartment aboard one of the ships undergoing salvage, after the 7 December 1941 Japanese raid. Note oily conditions, and face masks worn by the men. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command.
Catalog #: NH 63919

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Title: Da Nang Harbor, Republic of Vietnam

Description: Mineman Second Class Franklin Marshall, a Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team member, conducts a search for mines, especially those attached to ship's hulls, circa April 1966. The E.O.D. Team is responsible for harbor security. Several merchant ships are in the distance. Photographed by Ernie Filtz. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the U.S. National Archives.
Catalog #: K-31466

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Title: Inshore patrol craft (CF -71)
Caption: Cua Lon River, Republic of Vietnam … A U.S. Navy inshore patrol craft (PCF - 71), with an underwater demolition team embarked, returns to the sea float base after a patrol. Date July 1969

Catalog #: USN 1142661

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Title: Navy SEALS

Caption: Get a chance for some extra target practice as their converted "Mike" boat carries them back to home base at Nha Be following a search-and-destroy operation conducted in the jungle along one of the Mekong Delta's small waterways in the Republic of Vietnam, September 1967.

Catalog #: K-40663

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Title: View of an airstrike
Caption: Two members of Underwater Demolition Team Eleven watch an airstrike against the Viet Cong from the deck of the amphibious transport dock USS OGDEN (LPD-5). Photo taken on 18 June 1967, by Chief Journalist Chuck H. Nelson.

Catalog #: USN 1123771

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Peanut said:
Title: Da Nang Harbor, Republic of Vietnam

Description: Mineman Second Class Franklin Marshall, a Navy Explosive Ordnance Disposal Team member, conducts a search for mines, especially those attached to ship's hulls, circa April 1966. The E.O.D. Team is responsible for harbor security. Several merchant ships are in the distance. Photographed by Ernie Filtz. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the U.S. National Archives.
Catalog #: K-31466

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Title: Inshore patrol craft (CF -71)
Caption: Cua Lon River, Republic of Vietnam … A U.S. Navy inshore patrol craft (PCF - 71), with an underwater demolition team embarked, returns to the sea float base after a patrol. Date July 1969

Catalog #: USN 1142661

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That first pic, April 1966, was taken shortly after my dad was killed. KIA 4/1/1966
 
Bacpacker said:
That first pic, April 1966, was taken shortly after my dad was killed. KIA 4/1/1966
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Thank you for your family's sacrifice. I thought of your dad when i found the vietnam pics. Seems you told us the date before, i remembered is was early in the war. Saw these were early photos.
 
Thanks for posting them Peanut. I'm always on the lookout for stuff I haven't ran across before. Navy stuff is one of the biggest hole i have for stuff like that.

I've got a good story to add to the thread when I get on the laptop. It ran on our local news this week about our latest Medal of Honor recipient.
 
Female munitions workers guide 6-inch howitzer shells at a shell filling factory.
Nottinghamshire, England. July 1917

What was fired each week? found this on the net...

During the first two weeks of the Battle of Passchendaele the British, Australian and Canadian guns fired 4,283,550 shells at the German defences. It is estimated that throughout the First World War the Allies used 5,000,000 tons of artillery shells against enemy positions. The Central Powers used a similar amount of shells in their effort to win the war.


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William L. Sherman, Jr., 3rd son of Staff Sgt William Sherman saluting American troops from Fort Sam Houston, going off to war as they march through Alamo Plaza. On the way, they're passing Joske's Department Store in Downtown San Antonio, Texas on 1 July 1942 (someone colorized it)

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11 Nov. 1921: Escorted by 30 holders of the Medal of Honor, the "Unknown Soldier" is laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.

ILLUSTRATIONS: (1) Pres. Warren G. Harding dedicates the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. (2) President Harding with the remains of WWI unknown soldier before interment in the tomb. (3) Interment ceremony for the WWI unknown soldier.

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RDML John Dahlgren: Nov. 13, 1809 – July 12, 1870 “Father of modern naval ordnance”

Founded US Navy Ordnance Department and launched significant advances in naval gunnery — primarily the Dahlgren rifled naval gun.

Dahlgren, from Philadelphia, was the preeminent American naval ordnance designer of his day.

Civil War commandant of Washington Navy Yard. In 1863 he commanded South Atlantic Blockade Squadron, helping William Sherman secure Savannah, Georgia.

Dahlgren’s son, Ulrich, a Union officer famous for reconnaissance in Gettysburg campaign, was killed in an unsuccessful raid to liberate Union prisoners in Richmond in 1864.

Dahlgren’s brother, Brigadier-general Charles Dahlgren, served for the Confederate States, commanding a brigade of Mississippi militia.

— CP

RDML Dahlgren aboard USS Pawnee in 1865

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