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TOPEKA As Light Gun Cruiser CL-67
(1944 - 1957) |
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USS Topeka (CL-67) Launching, at the Bethlehem Steel Company
shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, 19 August 1944.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National
Archives #80-G-426885.
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USS Topeka (CL-67) Launching, at the Bethlehem Steel Company
shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, 19 August 1944. Courtesy of the Kansas
State Historical Society, Topeka, Kansas, 1967.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 42046.
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USS Topeka (CL-67) Launching, at the Bethlehem Steel Company
shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, 19 August 1944. Courtesy of the Kansas
State Historical Society, Topeka, Kansas, 1967.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 42047.
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USS Topeka (CL-67) Commissioning ceremonies, at the Boston Navy
Yard, Massachusetts, 23 December 1944. Rear Admiral Felix Gygax is speaking.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National
Archives #80-G-299263.
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USS Topeka (CL-67) Underway, circa early 1945.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the Naval Historical
Center #NH 42045.
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USS Topeka (CL-67) Underway at sea, March 1945. She is painted
in Camouflage Measure 32 or 33, Design 24d.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National
Archives #80-G-313910.
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USS Topeka (CL-67) In Manila Bay, Philippine Islands, July 1946.
A Baltimore class heavy cruiser is in the background.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the Naval Historical
Center #NH 98231.
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At anchor, Whongpoo River, Shanghai, China, 15 October 1946. |
Gerald E. Horgan |
TOPEKA As Converted Into Guided Missile Cruiser
CLG-8
(1960 - 1973) |
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Undated, starboard side view, underway. |
Howard Longstreth |
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Undated, Starboard side view. |
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Starboard side while moored in San Diego, September 1960. |
Lee Noland |
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Starboard side while moored in San Diego, September 1960. |
Lee Noland |
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USS Topeka (CLG-8) At sea, circa the early 1960s.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the Naval Historical
Center #NH 98232.
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USS Topeka (CLG-8) Fires a "Terrier" guided-missile on 18 November
1961, during weapons demonstrations for the Chief of Naval Operations,
Admiral George W. Anderson. Photographed from on board USS
Kitty Hawk (CVA-63). Planes preparing for launch on the carrier's
flight deck are a F8U "Crusader" jet fighter, at left, and an AD-6 "Skyraider"
attack plane (Bureau # 137588), in the lower center.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph #KN-3632.
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National Archives |
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Starboard side view, underway, Subic Bay, PI (1962) as seen
from USS Dynamic
(MSO-432). From the collection of George Arthur. |
Floyd Farrar |
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Port bow view, Long Beach Naval station (1962). From the
collection of George Arthur. |
Floyd Farrar |
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Shown off San Francisco on July 1, 1963 - The terrier missile
equivalent of the Galveston (which carried the Talos missile) |
USN |
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USS Topeka (CLG-8) Underway on 9 July 1964. Photographed by
Bradford.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the Naval Historical
Center #NH 98233.
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USS Topeka (CLG-8) Steaming in the South China Sea, 6 September
1964. Photographed by PH2 R.D. Fennell.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the Naval Historical
Center #NH 98234.
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USS Topeka (CLG-8) Fires her forward turret's 6"/47 guns at
the Viet Cong, while steaming slowly in the South China Sea on an in-shore
fire support mission, April 1966.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph #K-31264.
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USS Topeka (CLG-8) During Sixth Fleet exercises in the Mediterranean
Sea, 1968, seen from the bridge of USS
Bang (SS-385). This photograph was received on 6 November 1968.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the Naval Historical
Center #NH 98235.
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