USS Enterprise (CV-6) landing aircraft while supporting the Gilberts Operation, 22 November 1943. A TBM Avenger torpedo plane is on the flight deck, aft, while another is flying overhead.
Brooklyn Naval Yard 1958 - USS Enterprise (CV-6) is awaiting scrapping while USS Independence (CV-62) is being fitted out on the opposite side of the pier.
When USS Milwaukee was returned to the U.S. Navy in 1949 after being loaned to the Soviet Union for 5 years, one official said it was the dirtiest ship he had ever seen. The rusty ship smelled of stale fish and was full of rats, lice, and empty vodka bottles.
The Italian battleship Giulio Cesare returning to Taranto after a brief cruise for trials, before her imminent cession to the Soviet Union, November 1948; on 15 December, after sailing to Augusta, she would be formally struck from the rolls of the Marina Militare Italiana