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NavSource Online: Escort Carrier Photo Archive

USS ALTAMAHA (ACV-18)
(later CVE-18 and CVHE-18)

Photographs from the collection of Hugh G. Duncan, USS Altamaha

Submitted by his son, Carl Duncan

Information submitted by Gordon McBride,
who was aboard USS Altamaha at the time these photos were taken

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01 27 Kb	02 17 Kb	03 18 Kb Captain Olney, October 1943
04 41 Kb Crew on flight deck	05 (This ship appears not to be *Altamaha) 23 Kb*	06 23 Kb Officer wardroom equator crossing initiation
07 124 Kb Forward elevator, crossing equator	08 27 Kb Forward elevator, crossing equator	09 24 Kb Bridge, crossing equator
Not available	11 28 Kb Elevator, crossing equator	12 22 Kb Wardroom, crossing equator
13 21 Kb Bob Hope, Guadalcanal, August 1944	14 30 Kb Bob Hope, Guadalcanal, August 1944	15 26 Kb Wardroom, crossing equator
16 24 Kb Forward elevator, crossing equator	17 26 Kb Officer Pollywogs in crews' mess hall. Tables stored overhead. Ship's service store at left of photo.	18 24 Kb Bow of ship equator initiation
19 23 Kb Wardroom, crossing equator	20 23 Kb Bridge, crossing equator	21 17 Kb Forward elevator, crossing equator
22 17 Kb Crossing equator initation	23 18 Kb Crossing equator initation	24 27 Kb Home made dunking pond located on well deck. Sea visible top right of photo.
25 25 Kb Home made dunking pond located on well deck. Sea visible top right of photo.	26 30 Kb Equator photos probably taken on way to Brisbane, mid-November 1943