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Photo # 80-G-K-1467-A:  Japanese cargo ship Kinugawa Maru beached and sunk on Guadalcanal. Online Library of Selected Images --
Picture of the Month Gallery for 2001

This page features all images used in 2001 as the Online Library's "Picture of the Month".

For later "Pictures of the Month", see: Picture of the Month Gallery


For earlier "Pictures of the Month", see: Picture of the Month Gallery, 2000;
Picture of the Month Gallery, 1999; and Picture of the Month Gallery, 1998

To the best of our knowledge, all Online Library pictures are in the public domain, and can therefore be freely downloaded and used for any purpose without requesting permission.

If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions.


December 2001 Picture of the Month:


Sailors in a motor launch rescue a survivor from the water near the sunken and burning USS West Virginia in Pearl Harbor, 7 December 1941.



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November 2001 Picture of the Month:


Japanese cargo ship Kinugawa Maru beached and sunk on the Guadalcanal shore. She had been sunk by U.S. aircraft on 15 November 1942, during the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal.



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October 2001 Picture of the Month:


Japanese planes attack USS Enterprise during the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 26 October 1942.



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September 2001 Picture of the Month:


The badly damaged USS Franklin in New York Harbor, April 1945.



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August 2001 Picture of the Month:


"Our Flag is There!". Scene aboard a U.S. Navy ship off Mobile Bay, Alabama, 1864.



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July 2001 Picture of the Month:


Deck scene aboard USS Monitor in the James River, Virginia, July 1862.



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June 2001 Picture of the Month:


USS Yorktown (CV-5) is hit by a Japanese aerial torpedo, during the Battle of Midway, 4 June 1942.



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May 2001 Picture of the Month:


Japanese aircraft carrier Shoho is torpedoed by U.S. Navy planes, during the Battle of the Coral Sea, 7 May 1942.



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April 2001 Picture of the Month:


Army B-25 bomber takes off from USS Hornet (CV-8) at the start of the Doolittle Raid on Japan, 18 April 1942.



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March 2001 Picture of the Month:


WAVES working as Gunnery Instructors at the Naval Air Gunners' School, Hollywood, Florida, 1944.



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February 2001 Picture of the Month:


WAVES visiting USS Missouri (BB-63), circa August 1944.



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January 2001 Picture of the Month:


SB2C "Helldiver" bombers prepare to land on USS Hornet (CV-12), January 1945.



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For earlier "Pictures of the Month", see:

  • Picture of the Month Gallery, 2000;
  • Picture of the Month Gallery, 1999; and
  • Picture of the Month Gallery, 1998

    For later "Pictures of the Month", see: Picture of the Month Gallery

    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions.


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