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| 80k | Photo #: NH 103383, Sergeant John Basilone, USMC (1916-1945) halftone reproduction of a photograph, published in "Medal of Honor, 1861-1945, The Navy", page 153, showing Sgt. Basilone wearing the Medal of Honor, which was awarded to him for "extraordinary heroism and conspicuous gallantry" during combat action on Guadalcanal on 24 and 25 October 1942. Gunnery Sergeant John Basilone was killed in action on Iwo Jima in February 1945. USS Basilone (DD-824) was named in his honor. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. | Tony Cowart |
| 69k | Undated postcard Copyright © Arnold Art, Newport, RI. | Mike Smolinski |
| 105k | Photo #: NH 103377, Sergeant Lena Mae Basilone, USMC(WR), ship's sponsor, prepares to christen the destroyer, at the Consolidated Steel Company Shipyard, Orange, Texas, on 21 December 1945. She was the widow of Gunnery Sergeant John J. Basilone, USMC, in whose honor the ship was named.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the "All Hands" collection at the Naval Historical Center. | Tony Cowart |
| 102k | Photo #: NH 103385, USS Basilone (DDE-824) underway in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, 21 July 1949.
Photographed by R.A. Halverson, Naval Air Station Quonset Point, Rhode Island. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. | Tony Cowart |
| 96k | Photo #: NH 103384, USS Basilone (DDE-824) underway in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, 21 July 1949.
Photographed by R.A. Halverson, Naval Air Station Quonset Point, Rhode Island. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. | Tony Cowart |
| 125k | Photo #: NH 103386, USS Basilone (DDE-824) underway in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, 21 July 1949. Photographed by R.A. Halverson, Naval Air Station Quonset Point, Rhode Island. Note that this ship carries a trainable Hedgehog mount on her port side admidships, with provision for a second such weapon on the starboard side. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. | Tony Cowart |
| 192k | Photo #: NH 103387, USS Basilone (DDE-824) underway in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, 21 July 1949. Photographed by R.A. Halverson, Naval Air Station Quonset Point, Rhode Island. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. | Tony Cowart |
| 169k | Photo #: NH 103388, USS Basilone (DDE-824) underway in Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, 21 July 1949. Photographed by R.A. Halverson, Naval Air Station Quonset Point, Rhode Island. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. | Tony Cowart |
| 164k | Photo #: NH 103380, USS Basilone (DDE-824) underway, circa the early or middle 1950s. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. | Tony Cowart |
| 52k | Circa 1952, location unknown. | Robert Hurst |
| 41k | Circa 1954, Valetta, Malta. | Robert Hurst |
| 129k | USS Valley Forge (CVS-45) steaming in formation with Destroyer Squadron 36, during anti-submarine exercises of the Atlantic Fleet's Task Group ALFA, 6 November 1958. The destroyers are ((from top): USS Basilone (DDE-824); USS Damato (DDE-871); USS Robert L. Wilson (DDE-847); USS Harold J. Ellison (DD-864); USS Holder (DDE-819) and USS New (DDE-818). Official U.S. Navy Photograph. | Fred Weiss |
| 127k | USS Valley Forge (CVS-45) steaming in formation with Destroyer Squadron 36, during anti-submarine exercises of the Atlantic Fleet's Task Group ALFA, 6 November 1958. The destroyers are ((from top): USS Basilone (DDE-824); USS Damato (DDE-871); USS Robert L. Wilson (DDE-847); USS Harold J. Ellison (DD-864); USS Holder (DDE-819) and USS New (DDE-818). Official U.S. Navy Photograph. | Fred Weiss |
| 119k | Photo #: NH 103379, USS Basilone (DDE-824) underway at sea, circa the later 1950s or early 1960s. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. | Tony Cowart |
| 122k | Photo #: NH 103378, USS Basilone (DDE-824) comes alongside USS Albemarle (AV-4) to transfer personnel, 24 February 1960. Photographed by Ozizkonski. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. | Tony Cowart |
| 114k | Photo #: NH 103394, USS Basilone (DD-824) view looking forward from astern, taken at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in March 1964, as Basilone was completing her FRAM I conversion. Note the crane barge alongside. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. | Tony Cowart |
| 122k | Photo #: NH 103389, USS Basilone (DD-824) closeup view of the ship's port bow, taken at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in March 1964, as the ship was completing her FRAM I conversion. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. | Tony Cowart |
| 92k | Photo #: NH 103390, USS Basilone (DD-824) view looking forward over the ship's foredeck, taken at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in March 1964, as Basilone was completing her FRAM I conversion. Note the tall antenna fitted atop the ship's forward 5"/38 twin gun mount. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. | Tony Cowart |
| 126k | Photo #: NH 103391, USS Basilone (DD-824) view looking aft from over the ship's foredeck, taken at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in March 1964, as Basilone was completing her FRAM I conversion. Note the underway replenishment fittings and Mark 32 triple torpedo tubes on the 01 level forward of the ship's newly fitted enclosed bridge. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. | Tony Cowart |
| 98k | Photo #: NH 103392, USS Basilone (DD-824) view looking aft from over the ship's foredeck, taken at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in March 1964, as Basilone was completing her FRAM I conversion. Note the ship's forward 5"/38 twin gun mount, topped by a tall antenna. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. | Tony Cowart |
| 116k | Photo #: NH 103393, USS Basilone (DD-824) view looking forward from over the ship's afterdeck, taken at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in March 1964, as Basilone was completing her FRAM I conversion. Note the ship's DASH drone helicopter flight deck and hangar, and her starboard whaleboat rigged out on its davits. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. | Tony Cowart |
| 139k | Photo #: NH 103395, USS Basilone (DD-824) closeup view of the ship's port quarter, taken at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard in March 1964, as Basilone was completing her FRAM I conversion. Note the ship's propeller guard, hull number, name, and dented hull plating. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. | Tony Cowart |
| 82k | Boston , June 1965 | © Richard Leonhardt |
| 226k | Newport, August 1965 | © Richard Leonhardt |
| 96k | Circa 1966, location unknown. | Robert Hurst |
| 131k | Photo #: KN-13021, USS Basilone (DD-824) underway off Oahu, Hawaii, in February 1966. Taken by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class (AC) C.A. Komperda, of Composite Squadron One (VC-1). Official U.S. Navy Photograph. | Tony Cowart |
| 122k | Photo #: NH 103381, USS Basilone (DD-824) operating off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii, 17 February 1966. Photographed by Komperda. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. | Tony Cowart |
| 110k | Photo #: USN 1117062, USS Sacramento (AOE-1), center replenishing the aircraft carrier USS Ticonderoga (CVA-14), at right, and the destroyer USS Basilone (DD-824) in the South China Sea, 13 April 1966. Taken by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class J.L. Rivera, USN. Official U.S. Navy Photograph. | Tony Cowart |
| 85k | USS Basilone (DD-824) and USS Richard B. Anderson (DD-786) in Kaohsiung, Taiwan May 1966. | Larry Backus |
| 139k | As above, that evening. | Larry Backus |
| 140k | South China Sea, July 7 1966 | © Richard Leonhardt |
| 74k | South China Sea, July 7 1966 | © Richard Leonhardt |
| 129k | USS Sierra (AD-18) at San Juan, Puerto Rico, 26 February 1967 with six destroyers alongside including the Basilone (DD-824), Fiske (DD-842), Davis (DD-937), Richard E Kraus (DD-849), Harwood (DD-861), and the Gyatt (DD-712). Taken from the USU Fred T. Berry (DD-858). | © Richard Leonhardt |
| 91k | Naples, Italy 1968. | Marc Piché |
| 79k | Photo #: NH 103396-KN, USS Basilone (DD-824) underway at sea, circa the later 1960s or early 1970s. This photograph may have been taken by USS America (CVA-66). Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. | Tony Cowart |
| 74k | Two views of the Basilone alongside the USS Columbus (CG-12) circa 1970 in the Mediterranean for refueling in heavy weather. | Doug Tindal |
| 102k | As above. | Doug Tindal |
| 114k | Photo #: NH 86385, USS Basilone (DD-824) underway, 3 January 1972. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. | Tony Cowart |
| 74k | Photo #: NH 86386, USS Basilone (DD-824) underway at sea on 3 January 1972. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. | Tony Cowart |
| 124k | Photo #: NH 103382, USS Basilone (DD-824) underway in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, 3 January 1972. Photographed by PHAN Agar. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. | Tony Cowart |
| 63k | Photo #: NH 103398, USS Basilone (DD-824) receives assistance from the harbor tug Cochali (YTM-383) as she arrives at Newport, Rhode Island, on 6 February 1973. While operating in the Atlantic on the previous day, Basilone had sustained a boiler explosion that took the lives of three of her crew and injured eight more. Taken by Photographer's Mate 1st Class Troy A. Lewiston. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. | Tony Cowart |
| 87k | Photo #: NH 103397, Secretary of the Navy J. William Middendorf II (left center) speaks to the crew of USS Basilone (DD-824), as the ship operates at Kithira Anchorage near the island of Crete, 15 September 1975. Mr. Middendorf is making a two-week visit to U.S. and Allied military units in Europe.
A Soviet "Kresta" class guided missile ship is cruising in the right background. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. | Tony Cowart |
| 66k | Baltimore, Maryland drydock 1976 | Dennis Fournier STG1 |
| 82k | In home port Norfolk, VA between unknown destroyer tender and USS Conyngham DDG-17 in 1976. Good comparison of size to DDG. | Dennis Fournier STG1 |
| 40k | Ship's patch. | Mike Smolinski |
| 21k | Ship's patch. | Mike Smolinski |
| 51k | Ship's patch. | Mike Smolinski |
