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Size | Image Description | Contributed By |
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| 104k | Undated, location unknown. | - | |
| 91k | Undated, location unknown. | - | |
| 248k | Undated, good image underway as early war carrier escort. | - | |
| 261k | Undated, newspaper cliiping. | Robert Hall | |
| 155k | USS Blue (DD-387), left, and USS Helm (DD-388), ready for christening, in Drydock Two at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, 27 May 1937. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. | Joe Radigan | |
| 60k | - | Jon Burdett | |
| 53k | USS Helm (DD-388) and USS Blue (DD-387) at Norfolk Navy Yard prior to launching. USN photo. | Joe Radigan | |
| 77k | USS Helm (DD-388) photographed circa 1937-1939. Note the dark paint on her forward 5"/38 gun mounts (USN Photo No NH 61888). | Robert Hurst | |
| 37k | On builder's trials November 11 1937 off Portsmouth, VA. | Tracy White | |
| 160k | Plan view, aft, taken at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, on 25 February 1942. Note her torpedo tubes, life rafts, 26-foot motor whaleboat, smokestack and other midships details. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. | Fred Weiss | |
| 101k | Plan view, forward, taken at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, on 25 February 1942. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. | Fred Weiss | |
| 74k | Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 26 February 1942. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. | Fred Weiss | |
| 86k | USS Helm (DD-388) at Noumea, New Caledonia, on 6 April 1942. Photographed by USS Tangier (AV-8). Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. | Joe Radigan | |
| 96k | Navy Photo 2550-44, bow on view of USS Helm (DD 388) off Mare Island on 28 April 1944. She was in overhaul at Mare Island form 4 March until 4 May 1944. Note that her MK 33 director is facing aft. The ship is painted in camouflage Measure 31, Design 1d. | Darryl Baker | |
| 91k | Navy Photo 2553-44, broadside view of USS Helm (DD 388) off Mare Island on 28 April 1944. She was in overhaul at Mare Island form 4 March until 4 May 1944. | Darryl Baker | |
| 97k | Navy Photo 2555-44, stern view of USS Helm (DD 388) off Mare Island on 28 April 1944. She was in overhaul at Mare Island form 4 March until 4 May 1944. | Darryl Baker | |
| 111k | Navy Photo 2637-44, amidships looking aft plan view of USS Helm (DD 388) at Mare Island on 2 May 1944. USS Bagley (DD 386) is to the left and YMT-9 is to the right. YMt-9 was built at Mare Island in 1919. | Darryl Baker | |
| 111k | Navy Photo 2638-44, amidships looking forward plan view of USS Helm (DD 388) at Mare Island on 2 May 1944. USS Bagley (DD 386) is to the right. Note: 5" gun assemblies on the pier to the right. | Darryl Baker | |
| 82k | Lingayen Operation, January 1945 A Japanese plane makes a suicide attack on a Bagley class destroyer, west of the Philippines on 5 January 1945. The ship is probably USS Helm (DD-388), which was slightly damaged by a "Kamikaze" on that date. Note anti-aircraft shell bursts in the vicinity. Photographed by USS Steamer Bay (CVE-87). Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. | Fred Weiss | |
| 111k | USS Helm (DD-388) comes alongside USS Makin Island (CVE-93) during the Iwo Jima operation, 24 February 1945. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. | Joe Radigan | |
| 86k | Three Bagley-class destroyers being towed from Pearl Harbor to the West coast for scrapping. From left to right they are USS Craven (DD-282), USS Bagley (DD-386), and USS Helm (DD-388). The photo was taken on 21 November 1947. Photo from Warship Boneyards, by Kit and Carolyn Bonner. | Robert Hurst | |
The contact listed, Was the contact at the time for this ship when located. If another person now is the contact, E-mail me and I will update this entry. These contacts are compiled from various sources over a long period of time and may or may not be correct. Every effort has been made to list the newest contact if more than one contact was found.
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