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(Poor Image) As built. |
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Starboard side view, as completed. |
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July, 1945 photo clearly showing squared bridge and absence
of wing 5"/38 turrets of this class. |
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Port side view, underway, WWII era. |
Mike Brock |
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USS Oakland (CL-95) Off San Francisco, California, 2 August
1943.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical
Center #NH 98428.
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USS Oakland (CL-95) Off San Francisco, California, 2 August
1943.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical
Center #NH 98429.
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USS Oakland (CL-95) In San Francisco Bay, California, with the
San Francisco waterfront in the background, 2 August 1943.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical
Center #NH 98442.
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USS Oakland (CL-95) Plan view, forward, taken from a pierside
crane at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, on 27 October 1943.
Circles mark recent alterations to the ship. USS
St. Louis (CL-49) is in the background, with YHB-21 (ex-SS
Tamalpais) partially visible beyond. Note Sailors sleeping on Oakland's
bow 20mm gun position.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical
Center #NH 98445.
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USS Oakland (CL-95) Plan view, amidships looking aft, taken
from a pierside crane at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, on 27
October 1943. Circles mark recent alterations to the ship. Note the
twin 40mm gun mount in the lower center of the view, with its associated
director and single 20mm guns nearby. USS St.
Louis (CL-49) is in the background.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical
Center #NH 98446.
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USNHC |
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USS Oakland (CL-95) Plan view, amidships looking forward, taken
from a pierside crane at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, on 27
October 1943. Circles mark recent alterations to the ship. USS
St. Louis (CL-49) is in the left background.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical
Center #NH 98447.
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USNHC |
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USS Oakland (CL-95) Plan view, aft, taken from a pierside crane
at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, on 27 October 1943. Circles
mark recent alterations to the ship. Note depth charge racks on this
cruiser's stern. USS St. Louis (CL-49)
is in the left background.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical
Center #NH 98448.
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USS Oakland (CL-95) Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California,
29 October 1943.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical
Center #NH 98443.
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USS Oakland (CL-95) Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California,
with a harbor tug alongside, 29 October 1943.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical
Center #NH 98444.
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USNHC |
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Stern view of the USS Oakland (CL 95) departing Mare Island
on 29 Oct 1943.
U.S. Navy Photo #7379-43.
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Darryl Baker |
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Marshall Islands Raids, December 1943 - USS Oakland (CL-95),
at right, and a destroyer firing on Japanese planes attacking Task Force
50 near the Marshall Islands, 4 December 1943. Two of the planes are
visible, one in the photo's center and the other near the top. Photographed
from USS Minneapolis (CA-36).
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National
Archives #80-G-216804.
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National Archives |
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USS Enterprise (CV-6), at left, Under
attack by a Japanese suicide plane, during operations off Okinawa on
11 April 1945. She was hit and damaged on this day, but returned to
action in early May following repairs made at Ulithi. At right is USS
Oakland (CL-95), which is opening fire on the diving plane. Note
tracer shells streaking across the upper part of the image.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National
Archives #80-G-315762.
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National Archives |
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USS Oakland (CL-95) Underway in Leyte Gulf, Philippines, in
July 1945. Photographed from USS Essex (CV-9).
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National
Archives #80-G-326050.
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National Archives |
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USS Oakland (CL-95) entering San Francisco Bay with
the Golden Gate Bridge in the backround. The date of the photo is 20 OCT
1945 (first time back to the States after the war) and the USS Oakland
docked at the Port of Oakland for Navy Day 1945. |
Mike Brock |
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USS Oakland (CL-95) docking in Oakland, California,
her name sake city, on 20 OCT 1945 returning home after World War Two.
The three subs in the photo are (from left) - Unknown, USS
Kraken (SS-370), and USS Stickleback
(SS-415). |
Mike Brock |
