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

USS ESSEX based TBMs and SB2Cs dropping bombs on Hokadate, Japan.  July 1945.  (Navy)
Exact Date Shot Unknown
NARA FILE #:  080-G-490232
WAR &amp; CONFLICT BOOK #:  1238

Navy Planes Bombing Japan

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