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 | 21k | Starboard view, photographed circa 1935. | Official U.S. Navy Photograph, USNHC # NH 90498, now in the collections of the National Archives. | |
 | 25k | Underway, beautiful overhead view as Wyoming (AG-17), converted to Miscellaneous Auxiliary--Training Ship, 1937. Armament: 10 5"/38 DP, 4 3"/50 DP, 3x2 40mm, 1x4 40mm, 1x1 40mm, 6x1 20mm, 2x2 20mm, 2 Mk17 rocket launchers | Hyperwar WWII | |
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144k | Wyoming (AG-17) late 1930s, in port.Note lack of anchor embrasures characteristic of Arkansas (BB-33). | USN photo, text courtesy of Werner L. Stunkel. | |
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156k | Wyoming (AG-17) late 1930s overhead view, (note 5-inch/38 on starbord 01 level). | USN photo, text courtesy of Werner L. Stunkel. | |
 | 52k | Admiral Graf Spee photographed from Wyoming (AG-17) at Kiel, Germany, during the U.S. Naval Academy 1937 Midshipmen's cruise. Note the canvas covered anti-aircraft gunnery rangefinder in the right foreground. | U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph # NH 50268. | |
 | 43k | In 1938 Wyoming (AG-17) continued her operations out of Norfolk, Boston, and New York, visiting Cuban waters, as well as Puerto Rico and New Orleans. In addition, she conducted a Naval Academy midshipman's practice cruise to European waters in 1938, visiting Le Havre, France; Copenhagen; and Portsmouth, England. | Photo courtesy of Robert Hurst. Partial text courtesy of DANFS. | |
 | 103k | Press and radio women pose with Wyoming (AG-17) Commanding Officer, Captain Van Leer Kirkman, atop her forward 12"/50 gun turret, while visiting the ship during a press tour of Naval Operating Base, Norfolk, Virginia, 10 October 1941. | Official U.S. Navy Photograph, USNHC # NH 48407, now in the collections of the National Archives. | |
 | 45k | Wyoming (AG-17) STDB Quarter View off Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia on 6 June 1942. | Photo Serial 5197(42), courtesy of Mike Green. | |
 | 67k | Wyoming (AG-17) off the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, 6 June 1942. She is wearing a Measure 12 (Modified) camouflage scheme, and is still armed with six 12"/50 guns, plus a variety of five-inch and smaller guns. | Photograph # 19-N-30947 from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. Photo i.d. courtesy of Barb and Paul Rebold. | |
 | 159k | Wyoming (AG-17) June, 1943 appearance as a gunnery training ship with 12" turrets #1, #2, and #3 still in place. Along each side of the ship are the various range of anti- aircraft guns and directors. | USN photo. | |
 | 107k | Wyoming (AG-17) June, 1943 appearance as a gunnery training ship with 12" turrets #1, #2, and #3 still in place. Note the antiaircraft range-finders atop her torpedo-defense platform. In 1940 it was proposed that she be rebuilt as a target ship similar to the Utah (BB-31), but nothing was done. | Photo and partial text courtesy of U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman. | |
 | 229k | Serving as a gunnery training ship during WW II, Wyoming (AG-17) was fitted with the full range of antiaircraft guns & directors. Photographed 17 June 1943. | Partial text courtesy of U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman. U.S. Navy Photograph submitted by Pieter Bakels. | |
 | 109k | Starboard view of Wyoming (AG-17), April 1944. Notice the main armament change from 12 inch to 5 inch. | Official U.S. Navy Photograph, USNHC # 19-N-68191, now in the collections of the National Archives. | |
 | 100k | A line drawing by A.L. Raven of the Wyoming (AG-17) as a training ship, 1945. | Photo and text courtesy of U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman. | |
 | 93k | Final appearance of Wyoming (AG-17) in March, 1945 as an anti-Kamikaze research vessel based out of Casco Bay, Maine. She is shown as she emerged from Norfolk Navy Yard, 31 March 1945. | USN photo. | |
 | 89k | Final appearance of Wyoming (AG-17) underway, probably off the coast of Maine, 31 March 1945. | Photo and text courtesy of U.S. Warships of W.W. II by Paul H. Silverman, submitted by Robert Hirst. | |
 | 101k | Underway in the Atlantic Ocean, 30 April 1945. | Official U.S. Navy Photograph, USNHC # 80-G-323307, now in the collections of the National Archives. | |
 | 132k | Serving as a gunnery training ship during WW II, Wyoming (AG-17) was fitted with the full range of antiaircraft guns & directors. Circa pre-1945 rebuild. | Photo and partial text courtesy of U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman. | |
 | 70k | Chief Gunner's Mate Eugene Metzel, USN, who has served 24 years on board Wyoming (AG-17), looks at the bronze plaque commemorating her First World War service with the Grand Fleet. Photographed in 1945. Chief Metzel is wearing the World War II era service dress grey uniform. | Official U.S. Navy Photograph, USNHC # 80-G-334378, now in the collections of the National Archives. | |
 | 64k | Wyoming (AG-17), at Norfolk Navy Yard, fall of 1945 or spring of 1946. | Photo by Joseph Albright, courtesy of Christopher Albright. | |
 | 361k | "Battleship Graveyard" - Three decommissioned battleships, the Idaho (BB-42) (left foreground), the
Wyoming (AG-17), (right foreground), and the New Mexico (BB-40), lie alongside a pier at Port Newark, N.J. were they are being scrapped. Workmen have progressed with the New Mexico which was the subject of considerable controversy between Newark city officials and the scrapping concern. The Wyoming, most recent arrivial, has its gun turrets protected by round white coverings. | Text courtesy of AP wirephoto of 17 Dec 1947 edition of the Baltimore Evening Sun, submitted by Joe MacDonald. Photo courtesy of Warship Boneyards, by Kit and Carolyn Bonner & submitted by Robert Hurst. Photo added 04/28/08. | |
 | 926k | A guest studies a painting depicting the history of battleships. The artwork was painted by George Skybeck and presented to the Pearl Harbor Survivors Association during their annual banquet at Honolulu, Hawaii, on 8 Dec 1991. | USN photo # DN-SC-92-05391, by PHC Carolyn Harris, from the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, courtesy of dodmedia.osd.mil. | |
 | 371k | A quote made by Fleet Adm. Chester W. Nimitz is inscribed on a granite wall at the National World War II Memorial located on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Fleet Adm. Nimitz was the United States signatory to the surrender terms aboard the battleship Missouri (BB-63) in Tokyo Bay, Japan on 2 Sept. 1945, thus ending World War II. Established by the American Battle Monuments Commission, the memorial honors all military veterans of World War II, the citizens on the home front, the nation at large, and the high moral purpose and idealism that motivated the nation's call to arms. On 29 May 2004, the memorial will be formally dedicated with an estimated 200,000 people expected to attend, and includes 100,000 visiting veterans of all wars. | U.S. Navy photo # N-0295M-011 by Photographer’s Mate 2nd Class Daniel J. McLain, courtesy of news.navy.mil. | |
Additional Wyoming Images
1 General View Of Wyoming From The Library Of Congress Server.
USS WYOMING BB-32 History
View This Vessels DANFS History Entry
(Located On The Hazegray & Underway Web Site, This Is The Main Archive For The DANFS Online Project.)
Crew Contact And Reunion Information
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