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0408609 |
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Starboard quarter view, date and location unknown.
U.S. Navy Photo.
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David Buell |
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130k |
Late model Cleveland class ship in dazzle camouflage. Later
members of the class differed form the early ships in their bridge structure,
having a squared off face versus the early rounded face. Joining the fleet
at Iwo Jima, she provided off-shore gunfire support there and at Okinawa
and provided fleet anti-aircraft protection the remaining months of the
war. |
USN |
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155k |
A load of powder being transfered to the USS Vicksburg
from USS Shasta
(AE 6) |
Naval War College |
0408602 |
336k |
Starboard side view, off the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, 16 Jul 1944.
U.S. Navy photo #8158(44)
|
David Buell |
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119k |
August 1944, Good details of forward section of ship. |
USN |
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132k |
USS Vicksburg (CL 86) Off the U.S. East Coast, 17 October 1944.
Photographed by from a blimp of squadron ZP-12, based at Naval Air Station
Lakehurst, New Jersey. The ship is painted in Camouflage Measure 33,
Design 6d.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical
Center #NH 98331.
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Fred Weiss/USNHC |
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114k |
Japanese "Kamikaze" aircraft Burning after it was hit by gunfire while
attempting to crash into USS Vicksburg (CL 86) off Okinawa, 14
May 1945. Photographed from Vicksburg's forward superstructure,
with the ship's foremast yardarm in the foreground. Note weather reporting
instrument on the yardarm, and the antenna for an SK-1 air search radar
partially visible at right.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National
Archives #80-G-490019.
|
Fred Weiss/National Archives |
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148k |
USS
Harrison (DD 573) alongside USS Vicksburg (CL 86) 16 May
1945 in TG38.1. View from USS
Schroeder (DD 501). From the collection of Joe Mock. Note the
smoke visible in aviation hangar area. |
John Chiquoine |
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120k |
USS Vicksburg (CL 86) Arrives off San Francisco, California,
soon after the end of World War II, probably in October 1945. She is
flying a long "homeward bound" pennant from her mainmast.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 66437.
|
Fred Weiss/USNHC |
0408610 |
362k |
Portside view while at anchor in Monterrey Bay, California
on Navy Day, 27 October 1945. |
Chris Albright |
0409807 |
508k |
Mare Island Naval Shipyard, Vallejo, CA, 31 March 1963.
From Right to Left: Unknown Cleveland Class Light Cruiser, USS
Vicksburg (CL 86), USS Bremerton
(CA 130), USS Worcester (CL 144), USS
Roanoke (CL 145), USS
Tucson (CLAA 98). |
Dennis Tyra |
