Search Digital Records

• Rights > No copyright - United States (remove)
• Subject > United States. Navy (remove)
• Subject > Soldiers (remove)

Limit your search

• Still Image (327)
• Text (6)
• Audiovisual (1)

• Florida (22)
• United States (18)
• Key West (Fla.) (15)
• Ulithi (Micronesia) (15)
• Italy (4)
• Japan (4)
• Sicily (Italy) (4)
• Alaska (3)
• Norfolk (Va.) (3)
• Okinawa Island (Japan) (3)
• Oregon (3)
• Philippines (3)
• Salem (Or.) (3)
• Virginia (3)
• China (2)
• Illinois (2)
• Liberty (Mo.) (2)
• Massachusetts (2)
• Miami (Fla.) (2)
• Missouri (2)
• Nebraska (2)
• Newport (R.I.) (2)
• North Platte (Neb.) (2)
• Ohio (2)
• Rhode Island (2)

• photographic prints (299)
• photographic postcards (13)
• negatives (photographs) (12)
• aerial photographs (3)
• certificates (2)
• drawings (2)
• military records (2)
• stereographs (2)
• 8mm (photographic film size) (1)
• clippings (1)
• documents (1)
• forms (documents) (1)
• identification photographs (1)
• identity cards (1)
• membership cards (1)
• newsreels (1)
• postage stamps (1)
• tickets (1)

• No copyright - United States (334)

• Soldiers (334)
• United States. Navy (334)
• World War, 1939-1945 (207)
• World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns--Pacific Area (161)
• Ships (128)
• World War, 1914-1918 (127)
• Essex (Aircraft carrier) (107)
• Airplanes, Military (72)
• Madden, Paul J., 1920-2004 (25)
• Seaplanes (23)
• Airships (13)
• Curtiss HS-2L (11)
• Grumman F6F Hellcat Family (9)
• Air pilots, Military (8)
• Military camps (8)
• Michaud, Desiree "Jerry" Clifford, 1924-1982 (7)
• Aircraft accidents (6)
• Allied Forces (6)
• General Motors (Eastern) TBM Avenger Family (6)
• Roy, C. E. (Carlyle Emerson) (6)
• Vought F4U Corsair Family (6)
• Women (6)
• Animals (4)
• Curtiss SB2C Helldiver Family (4)
• Mantia, Tony (4)

334 results

[Servicemen working with bombs] (Item)

Photograph of U.S. Navy servicemen working with bombs, USS (CV-9), circa 1943-1945. Other servicemen are standing in a chow line along the perimeter. Inscription on verso: "Essex / Hangar deck / Bombs are being prepared for storage below / Men lined up are in the chow line. / D05."Part of a disassembled album containing materials related to Paul J. Madden's service with the U.S. Navy during World…

[Landing signal officer directing aircraft on USS Essex] (Item)

Photograph of a landing signal officer directing aircraft on the USS Essex (CV-9), circa 1945.Inscription on verso: "Essex / 1944."Part of a disassembled album containing materials related to Paul J. Madden's service with the U.S. Navy during World War II, circa 1940-1945.

[Servicemen working with bombs] (Item)

Photograph of U.S. Navy servicemen working with bombs, USS (CV-9), circa 1943-1945. Inscription on verso: "Hangar deck bomb storage crew / E11."Part of a disassembled album containing materials related to Paul J. Madden's service with the U.S. Navy during World War II, circa 1940-1945.

[Vought F4U Corsair aircraft being prepped for launch] (Item)

Photograph of Vought F4U Corsair aircraft (tail number 172) being prepped for launch, USS Essex (CV-9), circa 1943-1945.Caption on album page: "Launching F4Us."Part of a disassembled album containing materials related to Paul J. Madden's service with the U.S. Navy during World War II, circa 1940-1945.

[Servicemen and aircraft on USS Essex] (Item)

Photograph of U.S. Navy servicemen and aircraft on the USS Essex (CV-9), circa 1944.Inscription on verso: "Essex -- 1944 / 46."Part of a disassembled album containing materials related to Paul J. Madden's service with the U.S. Navy during World War II, circa 1940-1945.

U.S. destroyer off Sicily (Item)

Photograph of a United States Navy serviceman on the deck of a destroyer as the ship approaches Sicily, Italy, circa 1943. On the right is a dual-purpose artillery gun.Typed caption glued to verso: "U.S. destroyer off Sicily. Licata, Sicily, comes within gun range of an American destroyer during the first stages of the Allied invasion of the Italian Island. A U.S. Navy observer stands next to a…

U.S. naval forces aid Allied landings on Sicily (Item)

Photograph of a United States Navy observer using a radio to report on the progress of the Allied beach landing in Sicily, Italy, circa 1943. A landing craft approaching the Sicilian coast is visible in the background.Typed caption glued to verso: "U.S. naval forces aid Allied landings on Sicily. An observer on a U.S. ship (left foreground) gives details of the progress of the Allied invasion…

U.S. naval forces aid Allied landings in Sicily (Item)

Photograph of a United States Navy observer watching the Allied invasion fleet as it approaches Sicily, Italy, circa 1943. Typed caption glued to verso: "U.S. naval forces aid Allied landings in Sicily. A helmeted U.S. Navy observer stands aboard a warship ready to report by telephone to a control center as ships of the Allied invasion fleet (background) pass by in close formation on the way to…

[Photographer's data sheet, U.S. Navy Bureau of Aeronautics, May 20, 1945] (Item)

Photographer's data sheet, U.S. Navy Bureau of Aeronautics, May 24, 1945. Summarizes actions taken by the USS Essex (CV-9) during the Okinawa campaign in May 1945. Paul J. Madden is listed as the cameraman in the document.Part of a disassembled album containing materials related to Paul J. Madden's service with the U.S. Navy during World War II, circa 1940-1995.

[Paul J. Madden operating cameras on target-towing ship] (Item)

Photograph of U.S. Navy serviceman Paul J. Madden operating cameras on a target-towing ship, Alaska, circa 1942. Inscription on verso: "Alaska -- 1942 / M19."Caption on album page: "P.J.M. and camera used for recording gunnery practice. Picture taken on sea-going tug somewhere in the Aleutian Islands area 1942, when a member of the Pacific Fleet Camera Party."Part of a disassembled album…