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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- EVENTS -- The Korean War, 1950-1953 --

Miscellaneous Shipboard Activities, 1951-53 (Part II)

This page features additional Korean War miscellaneous views taken on board ship during 1951-53.
Other views taken on board ships during this time will be found in appropriate subsections of our Korean War presentation.

For additional miscellaneous shipboard scenes taken in 1951-53, see:

  • Miscellaneous Shipboard Activities, 1951-53 ;
  • Miscellaneous Shipboard Activities, 1951-53 (Part III);and
  • ---Posed Views of Ship's Crews.

    For miscellaneous Korean War shipboard scenes taken in 1950, see: Miscellaneous Shipboard Activities, June-December 1950.

    For a precis of our Korean War images, and links to more comprehensive pictorial coverage of other aspects of that conflict, see:

  • The Korean War, June 1950 - July 1953 -- Introductory Overview and Special Image Selection.

    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions.

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: 80-G-708164

    HNMS Evertsen

    (Netherlands destroyer, 1946-1962)

    Lieutenant Commander D.J. Van Doorninck, RNN, and Lieutenant Commander Otto Cramwinckle, RNN, check weather chart on the ship's bridge, during operations off Korea.
    Photo is dated 26 March 1951.
    Photographed by PH3c Dyson, USN.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

    Online Image: 101KB; 585 x 765 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: 80-G-440136

    Commander James P. Coleman, USN
    ,
    Ship's Commanding Officer

    Uses a pelorus to take bearings, on the bridge of USS Purdy (DD-734) during Korean War operations, February 1952.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

    Online Image: 69KB; 595 x 765 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: NH 73695

    USS Osprey (AMS-28)


    Ship's cook in the galley, preparing to fry some eggs, circa 1952.

    Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 104KB; 595 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: 80-G-443725

    USS Wisconsin (BB-64)


    Crewmen pause to say Grace, as the chow line is opened for a meal in March 1952, while the battleship was operating off Korea.
    Note fancy "Mother" tattoo on the sailor second from left behind the serving trays.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

    Online Image: 121KB; 740 x 610 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: 80-G-443726

    USS Wisconsin (BB-64)


    Crewman in prayer, by a religious services poster, March 1952. The battleship was then operating off Korea.
    Note church service schedule on the poster.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

    Online Image: 121KB; 740 x 615 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: NH 97172

    USS Boxer (CV-21)


    "Scouts Scout Boxer -- The aircraft carrier USS Boxer, resting after combat duty off Korea, was visited by Washington Heights Boy Scouts from Tokyo while the ship lay tied up at Yokosuka harbor. The scouts ranged from very small to large, but they all enjoyed themselves. Here, trooped around Robert Fine, Seaman, USN ..., are (l to r) scouts Stanley Russell, Philip Conway, Louis Larson, Bernard Freeman, and Raymond Gay examining the Corsair fighter planes on the Boxer's flight deck. After a thorough tour of the ship the scouts were served ice cream and cookies in the wardroom."
    Photograph and caption were released by Commander Naval Forces, Far East, under date of 29 July 1952.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the "All Hands" collection at the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 98KB; 740 x 620 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 97084

    "Belgians Learn about U.S. Navy"


    "Laughing at a salty cartoon in the Navy magazine All Hands are two Belgian officials and a seaman aboard the aircraft carrier USS Antietam (CV-36) operating in the Far East. From the left are: Lt. Colonel Caston Daelemans, Belgian Army, chief of the liaison mission of the Belgian battalion in Korea; Harold J. Paul, seaman, ...; and Viscount Alain de Prello, United Nations correspondent from 'Europe Amerique' in Brussels, and 'Le Moustique' in Charleroi."
    "The Belgians were invited by Vice Admiral C. Turner Joy, USN, Commander Naval Forces, Far East, to make the cruise and to see the Navy's planes from the Antietam hit the enemy."
    Photograph and caption released by Commander Naval Forces Far East, under date of 5 November 1951.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the "All Hands" collection at the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 85KB; 740 x 620 pixels

     

    For additional miscellaneous shipboard scenes taken in 1951-53, see:

  • Miscellaneous Shipboard Activities, 1951-53 ;
  • Miscellaneous Shipboard Activities, 1951-53 (Part III);and
  • ---Posed Views of Ship's Crews.

    For miscellaneous Korean War shipboard scenes taken in 1950, see: Miscellaneous Shipboard Activities, June-December 1950.

    For a precis of our Korean War images, and links to more comprehensive pictorial coverage of other aspects of that conflict, see:

  • The Korean War, June 1950 - July 1953 -- Introductory Overview and Special Image Selection.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions.


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    18 August 2000