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0410318 |
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Port side view just after slipping down the ways, 24 DEC 1943.
New York Shipbuilding Photo.
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David Buell |
0410308 |
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Port bow view while undergoing Inclining prior to commissioning at
New Yorkr Shipbuilding, 10 June 1944. The Guam
(CB-2) can be seen in the background.
U.S. Navy Photo.
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David Buell |
0410309 |
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Starboard side aftview while undergowing Inclining prior to commissioning
at New York Shipbuilding, 10 June 1944
U.S. Navy Photo.
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David Buell |
0410310 |
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Starboard side forward view while undergowing Inclining prior to commissioning
at New York Shipbuilding, 10 June 1944
U.S. Navy Photo.
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David Buell |
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Starboard side bow view while undergowing Inclining prior to commissioning
at New York Shipbuilding, 10 June 1944
U.S. Navy Photo.
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David Buell |
0410313 |
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Port side aft view while undergoing Inclining prior to commissioning
at New York Shipbuilding, 10 June 1944. The Guam
(CB-2) can be seen in the background.
U.S. Navy Photo.
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David Buell |
0410315 |
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Starboard side view of aft deckhouse while undergowing Inclining prior
to commissioning at New York Shipbuilding, 10 June 1944
U.S. Navy Photo.
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David Buell |
0410316 |
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Port side view of forward deckhouse while undergoing Inclining prior
to commissioning at New York Shipbuilding, 10 June 1944. The Guam
(CB-2) can be seen in the background.
U.S. Navy Photo.
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David Buell |
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Port side view of aft deckhouse while undergoing Inclining prior to
commissioning at New York Shipbuilding, 10 June 1944. The Guam
(CB-2) can be seen in the background.
U.S. Navy Photo.
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David Buell |
0410312 |
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Port side view soon after commissioning while at Philidelphia Navy
Yard, 18 August 1944
U.S. Navy Photo.
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David Buell |
0410314 |
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Port bow view soon after commissioning while at Philidelphia Navy Yard,
18 August 1944
U.S. Navy Photo #2199-44.
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David Buell |
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As built, (Small Image) |
USN |
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USS Bunker
Hill (CV-17) burning after being hit by a "Kamikaze" attack
while operating off Okinawa on 11 May 1945. Photographed from USS
Wilkes Barre (CL-103), which appears to have received fire damage
herself helping to fight the blaze from alongside the carrier. A destroyer
is off Bunker Hill's port side.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National
Archives # 80-G-328618.
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Scott Dyben/National Archives |
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USS Bunker
Hill (CV-17) casualties from Kamikaze hits are transferred to
USS Wilkes-Barre (CL-103) for medical care, off Okinawa on 11
May 1945. Photographed from Wilkes-Barre's port side amidships,
looking aft. Note SB2C aircraft (one with a burned wing) parked aft
on Bunker Hill, smashed 40mm gun position on her starboard side,
smoke from still-burning fires, and firefighting water streaming over
her side. On Wilkes-Barre note the 40mm quad gun mount in the
foreground and the electronic antenna above.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National
Archives # 80-G-328619.
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National Archives |
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USS Wilkes-Barre (CL-103) Color-tinted photograph of the ship
at San Pedro, California, 31 January 1946, upon her return from wartime
service in the western Pacific. Note the homeward bound pennant held
up by balloons. Courtesy of Captain Edwin C. Finney, USN (Retired),
1991.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 96708-KN.
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USNHC |
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USS Wilkes-Barre (CL-103) At anchor, probably at San Pedro,
California, circa 31 January 1946. Donation of Commander Reo E. Nicar,
USNR (Retired), April 1978.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 98601.
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USNHC |
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USS Wilkes-Barre (CL-103) Off San Pedro, California, circa 31
January 1946. Photographed by Thompson, Los Angles, California. Donation
of Commander Reo E. Nicar, USNR (Retired), April 1978.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 98602.
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USNHC |
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USS Wilkes-Barre (CL-103) Alongside a destroyer tender, at Newport,
Rhode Island, 21 June 1947. Courtesy of the Mariners' Museum, Newport
News, Virginia. Ted Stone Collection.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 66329.
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USNHC |
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112k |
Port bow view, Moored in Philidelphia, PA with the Atlantic Reserve
Fleet, 1971.
From the collection of the Naval Record Club.
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Richard Leonhardt |
