12-07-2011, 04:02 PM
That first picture is of the USS Shaw's (DD-373) forward magazines exploding. I was surprised to find out that the ship was repaired and served throughout the Pacific during the war. It was decommissioned in 1946.
Official Navy website http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-s/dd373.htm
Pictures - http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/373.htm