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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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National Archives |
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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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National Archives |
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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. |
USN |
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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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Topeka (left) with Boston
(CA 69) to her starboard and two Cleveland class cruisers outboard
of Boston during the winter of 1972 or the very early spring of 1973 at
the Philadelphia Naval ship yard. |
Jim Cunliffe |
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Topeka (foreground) with Boston
(CA 69) to her starboard and two Cleveland class cruisers outboard
of Boston during the winter of 1972 or the very early spring of 1973 at
the Philadelphia Naval ship yard. |
Jim Cunliffe |
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Topeka (foreground) with Boston
(CA 69) to her starboard and two Cleveland class cruisers outboard
of Boston during the winter of 1972 or the very early spring of 1973 at
the Philadelphia Naval ship yard. |
Jim Cunliffe |
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Commanding
Officers
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| Name/Rank |
Final Rank |
Dates |
| Wattles, Thomas Lippitt, CAPT |
RADM |
12/23/1944 - 11/07/1945 |
| Schindler, Walter Gabriel J., CAPT |
VADM |
11/07/1945 - 07/24/1946 |
| Johnson, Donald Hendrie, CAPT |
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07/24/1946 - 08/01/1947 |
| Earle Jr., Ralph, CAPT |
VADM |
08/01/1947 - 06/01/1948 |
| Koonce, Paul Brogden., CAPT |
RADM |
06/01/1948 - 06/19/1949 |
| Decommissioned |
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06/18/1949 - 03/26/60 |
| Pinney Jr., Frank Lucius, CAPT |
RADM |
03/26/60 - 11/60 |
| Janney, Frederick Emery, CAPT |
RADM |
11/60 - 09/61 |
| Paine Jr., Roger Warde, CAPT |
RADM |
09/61 - 10/18/62 |
| Mansfield, Jack Emerson, CAPT |
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10/18/62 - 12/64 |
| Ruhe Jr., William James, CAPT |
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12/64 - 10/65 |
| Buell, Thomas Chapin, CAPT |
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10/65 - 06/03/66 |
| Montgomery, William Morgan, CAPT |
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06/03/66 - 11/24/67 |
| Halvorson, George Grandchamp, CAPT |
RADM |
11/24/67 - 06/05/69 |
