Click On Image For Full Size Image	Size	Image Description		Contributed By And/Or Copyright
0658502	24k	undated wartime image		-
0658521	170k	circa 1944: At sea - Starboard quarter view of USS Daniel A. Joy (DE 585) underway. (U.S. Naval Historical Center photo #NH 54642, courtesy of Robert W. Staw, GMG2, USNRTC, Clifton, N.J., 1966; from the Naval History and Heritage Command)		Mike Green Port Angeles, Wash.
0658511	393k	Photo taken from USS Blue Ridge AGC 2 on 04 January 1945 en route from Aitape, New Guinea to Lingayen, Philippines. Joy is coming to port of Blue Ridge for a mail transfer, which no doubt was much anticipated by crew members.		Michael Patrick in honor of his father John J. Patrick RT3c USS Blue Ridge AGC 2 1943-1945
0658512	305k	21 August 1948: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - USS Carp (SS 338) alongside Daniel A Joy (DE 585) in Vancouver. Daniel A Joy was assigned to the 12th Naval District for duty as a Naval Reserve training vessel. (Photo courtesy of Scott Koen and ussnewyork.com)		Scott Koen
0658520	836k	22 August 1948: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - USS Carp (SS 338) moored outboard of USS Daniel A. Joy at a city wharf. (Photograph by Walter E. Frost) (Photo CVA 447-8705 from the City of Vancouver Archives)		Mike Smolinski Clifton, N.J. Archive Manager DE / FF / LCS Archive Navsource
0658514	208k	03 May 1950: location unknown		Ron Reeves Oaklyn, N.J.
0658522	574k	early May 1950: New Orleans, La. - In going through my father's estate we have found many pictures, including a series of the USS Daniel A. Joy. His obituary reads "One of the highlights of his military career was serving on the destroyer escort USS Daniel A. Joy sailing from the mouth of the Mississippi in New Orleans to Lake Michigan where she was re-commissioned." (in May 1950). This photo shows Daniel A. Joy shortly after her arrival in New Orleans.		Christine Gray Oregon In memory of her Dad Jay Dee Gray
0658523	869k	early May 1950: New Orleans, La. - This photo shows additional ballast tanks being welded to Joy's sides to add additional buoyancy to her hull, raising her keel a few more inches.
0658524	222k	early May 1950: New Orleans, La. - Sailors from Daniel A. Joy demonstrate a new "inter-vessel transfer system" being employed locally.
0658525	545k	early May 1950: New Orleans, La. - This appears to be a division photo. Radiomen, quartermasters, and a Chief Hospital Corpsman.
0658515	400k	08 November 1952: Chicago, Ill. - A newspaper photo from the Chicago Sun-Times. Daniel A Joy holds "Open House" while moored at the Michigan Ave. Bridge. MM3 Carmelo Pavaglio explains the working of a 40mm anti-aircraft gun to Girl Scouts of Troop #44 of River Forest, Ill. The girls are Jean Taurtelot, age 12, Peggy Faul, age 12, Kathleen Mullaney and Judy O'Leary, age 13.		Tommy Trampp Benton City, Wash.
0658507	95k	Spring 1954: Holland, Mich. - Daniel A. Joy secured to the pier at Holland, Mich. for the annual Tulip Festival. She was always quite an attraction for the festival.		Don Garner RM3 August 1953 - October 1954 (Photos © Don Garner) Don Garner Reminisces
0658503	122k	Summer 1954: Naval Station Great Lakes; Ill. - Daniel A. Joy moored at Great Lakes Naval Station. When reporting aboard, Don Garner was told at the 9th Naval District Receiving Station, "Walk down that street one block and turn left."
0658508	96k	Summer 1954: Naval Station Great Lakes; Ill. - Daniel A. Joy moored at Great Lakes Naval Station. She is shown at the same pier as above, but much closer and on a different date.
0658509	58k	Summer 1954: Naval Station Great Lakes; Ill. - Daniel A. Joy shown at the end of the cluster of the seven ships of the Great Lakes Reserve Training Squadron. They were gathered at the Great Lakes naval base, with DE 585 at the far end and six PCEs moored to the pier three deep in the foreground. The normal cruise schedules were to leave their home ports on Sunday afternoons with their new groups of trainees and put in at the base for supplies. The following Monday morning they would depart for their two-week training cruises.
0658510	182k	Summer 1954: Escanaba, Wis. - Daniel A. Joy secured to a wall at a lakefront city park in Escanaba, Wisconsin, a mid-cruise liberty port.
0658504	34k	She is shown here moored to her jetty next to the Chicago Naval Armory, across Lake Shore Drive from Chicago's Loop. For several years she cruised the Great Lakes as a Naval Reserve Training ship.
0658505	35k	In drydock at Milwaukee, Wis., note dog-eared screw.
0658516	252k	03 September 1954: Detroit, Mich. - A newspaper photo from the Chicago Sun-Times. Detroit Naval Reservists training aboard Daniel A Joy listen as a Naval Reserve officer explains the mechanism of the 20-millimeter gun. From the left are Cdr. D.C. Edwards, who is acting as officer in tactical command of the fresh water cruise; Lt. C.N. Reinelt and seamen Willis Talley, Richard St. John, Eugene Matto, Homer Tucker, Paul Curtis, and George Petersen.		Tommy Trampp Benton City, Wash.
0658526	308k	24 July 1959: Midland, Ontario, Canada - USS Daniel A. Joy (DE 585), a destroyer escort attached to the Great Lakes Squadron of the United States Navy, just after she had made fast to the berth at the CSL Elevator on the afternoon of July 24. Word of her arrival quickly attracted a crowd, including many tourists from Little Lake Park. (Photo from the Huronia Museum, Midland, Canada)		Mike Smolinski Clifton, N.J. Archive Manager DE / FF / LCS Archive Navsource
0658517	128k	06 February 1960: Chicago, Ill. - "THE ATTACK WAS FOILED" - The Coast Guard was ready when the enemy attacked in Chicago Saturday. Units of the Coast Guard Reserve were on a port security exercise. Involving about 250 men from Chicago, Gary, Forest Park and Evanston. The Evanston unit - the "bad guys" - attempted to infiltrate and do simulated damage at two spots; Calumet Maher Terminal and the area around the Naval Armory at the foot of Randolph. The other units were the defenders. Here a group of men are shown putting out a fire set by the "attackers" at the armory. The Coast Guard vessel Daniel A Joy is in the background. Defenders are (from left) Seaman Robert Weller, Timothy Donovan, John McGowan, David Neale and Donald Oleski, all of Chicago.		Tommy Trampp Benton City, Wash.
0658518	165k	08 February 1960: Chicago, Ill. - "THWARTS SABOTAGE" - Seaman Donald McLean uses a Geiger counter to check for nuclear bomb on deck of USS Daniel A. Joy. Four mock nuclear bombs were discovered aboard the ship during Coast Guard Reserve war games.
0658527	133k	circa 1961: Lake Michigan - Daniel A. Joy in preparation for her recall to active duty with Escort Squadron Eight at Newport, R.I., as part of the callup of Naval Reserve vessels for the Berlin Crisis. (Photo from All Hands magazine, January 1962		Mike Smolinski Clifton, N.J. Archive Manager DE / FF / LCS Archive Navsource
0658506	272k	Spring '61: USS Daniel A. Joy (DE 585) serving as a Naval Reserve Training Ship at Chicago. (U.S. Naval Photographic Center Photo #NH73925 from the U.S. Navy BUMED Library and Archives 11-0014; Courtesy of Lt. John B Hattendorf, USN)		Bill Gonyo Downey, Cal. Assoc. Researcher Navsource
0658519	105k	02 October 1961: Chicago, Ill. - UPI Photo: Crewmen of USS Daniel A. Joy, a destroyer escort, wave to friends and relatives here as vessel is restored to active duty. Ship has trained Navy reservists here for 11 years. It is first of 40 vessels called to active duty because of the Berlin Crisis. Joy will patrol Atlantic in anti-submarine service. There are 170 men aboard.		Tommy Trampp Benton City, Wash.
0658513	160k	13 June 1962: Great Lakes, Ill. - "BACK TO SIDEWALK BEAT FOR THEM" - Returning to their "beats" as Chicago policemen when USS Daniel A. Joy returns to the Windy City will be these five crewmembers of the destroyer escort. They are (from left) Steward Charles Hicks, 34, of 6541 S. Rose, a patrolman in the 35th District; Commissaryman 2nd class Edward LaCourse, 25, of 712 W. 116th St., a patrolman in the 21st District; Chief Boatswains Mate Donald R. Burch, 31, of 6410 So. Keeler Ave., a patrolman in the Training Division; Gunners Mate 3rd class Raymond M. Bibbs, 26, of 8117 So. Park Ave., a patrolman in the 3rd District; and Seaman Arthur L. Castrejon, 23, of 9331 Kingston, a rookie cop. (U.S. Naval Photo#121-62 from the 9th Naval District Public Affairs Office, Great Lakes, Ill.)

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