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Photo # KN-10849:  'Burning of the Frigate Philadelphia ...'.  Painting by Edward Moran, 1897 Online Library of Selected Images --
Picture of the Month Gallery for 2003

This page features all images used in 2003 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, 2002;
Picture of the Month Gallery, 2001; 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 2003 Picture of the Month:

Japanese torpedo planes make a devastating attack on "Battleship Row", Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, at about 0800 hrs. on 7 December 1941. Photographed from one of the attacking planes.

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November 2003 Picture of the Month:

The crew of the sunken exploration steamer Jeannette landing on Bennett Island, north of Siberia, on 29 July 1881.
Having last month issued an invitation to "consider the pleasures of working one's way back and forth across the Atlantic" shovelling coal, this month we offer an opportunity to imagine the joys of pulling three heavy boats and other gear across hundreds of miles of broken Arctic ice. The Jeannette's men really did that! Read all about it in our presentation on the Jeannette Arctic Expedition of 1879-1881.

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October 2003 Picture of the Month:

Stokers feeding coal to the boilers in USS Mount Vernon's Number Four fireroom, circa 1919. Consider the pleasures of working one's way back and forth across the Atlantic in this job, heaving a ton or more of coal for every mile the ship moved.

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September 2003 Picture of the Month:


Captain Arleigh A. Burke, Commander Destroyer Squadron 23, reading on the bridge of USS Charles Ausburne, during operations in the Solomon Islands, 1943-1944.


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August 2003 Picture of the Month:


USS Everett F. Larson firing five-inch guns in support of South Vietnamese troops, 1972.


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July 2003 Picture of the Month:


The National Ensign flies from the mainmast gaff on the transport Mercury (ID # 3012), circa 1919.


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June 2003 Picture of the Month:


Japanese heavy cruiser Mikuma after she had been wrecked by bombs during the Battle of Midway, 6 June 1942.


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May 2003 Picture of the Month:


USS Buchanan (DD-131) at Balboa, Panama Canal Zone, 18 May 1936


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April 2003 Picture of the Month:


Hospitalman William R. Charette, who recieved the Medal of Honor for Korean War heroism, selects the Unknown Serviceman of World War II, during ceremonies on board USS Canberra (CAG-2), 26 May 1958


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March 2003 Picture of the Month:


USS Constitution in action with HMS Guerriere, 19 August 1812. Painting by Michel Felice Corne.
The original painting is in the U.S. Naval Academy Museum, Annapolis, Maryland.


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February 2003 Picture of the Month:


"Burning of the Frigate Philadelphia in the Harbor of Tripoli, February 16, 1804". Painting by Edward Moran, 1897.
The original painting is in the U.S. Naval Academy Museum, Annapolis, Maryland.


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January 2003 Picture of the Month:


Eugene B. Ely lands his Curtiss pusher biplane on board USS Pennsylvania, on 18 January 1911, the first time an airplane landed on board a warship.


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For earlier "Pictures of the Month", see:

  • Picture of the Month Gallery, 2002;
  • Picture of the Month Gallery, 2001;
  • 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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