Click On Image
For Full Size Image |
Size |
Image Description |
Contributed
By And/Or Copyright |
NS0308702 |
226k |
USS Steamer Bay (CVE-87), 22 April 1944, off San Diego, Calif.
Camouflage Measure 14. USN photo. |
Gerd Matthes, Germany |
NS0308708 |
170k |
A nice photo of USS Steamer Bay (CVE-87), taken from a ZP-31
airship on 14 May 1944, near the California coast, transporting lots of F4U Corsairs. |
David Buell |
NS0308709 |
252k |
USS Steamer Bay (CVE-87), 17 July 1944, probably off California.
Camouflage Measure 32, Design 12A. USN photo. |
Gerd Matthes, Germany |
NS0308707 |
76k |
USS Steamer Bay (CVE-87) docked on the West Side of Ford Island,
Pearl Harbor, 1944–1945. |
© J.R. Daniels, US Navy Seabee, via LT(JG) Jim Converse, USNR (former) |
NS0308703 |
131k |
Date and place unknown. |
Steve Miller, ETM 2/c |
NS0308704 |
188k |
A couple F6F-5's prepare to take off from USS Steamer Bay (CVE-87),
date and place unknown. Both Hellcats had been ferried by the escort carrier and squadron or
carrier markings had not yet been applied. The lead plane is an F6F-5N night fighter, and has an APS-6
radar installed in a starboard wing-mounted radome. |
Steve Miller, ETM 2/c |
NS0308701 |
53k |
Action on January 5, 1945 shows the Steamer Bay under attack
with a kamikaze shown flying past her stern. At the time, she was camouflaged in Measure 32,
Design 12A (thanks to Aryeh Wetherhorn.) |
USN |
NS0308705 |
168k |
An FM-2 Wildcat of VC-93 snags the arresting gear, July 9, 1945. Note
three launch stubs for 5" High Velocity Air Rockets (HVARs) under each wing — these were fitted
to late-production FM-2's. |
Steve Miller, ETM 2/c |
NS0308706 |
356k |
At Bellingham, Washington, in early 1946, for preparation for "mothballing". |
Steve Miller, ETM 2/c |
