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Photo # NH 103718:  Crewmembers cooling USS Beale's forward five-inch gun, possibly after a gunfire support mission off Vietnam in 1966

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USS Beale (DD-471, later DDE-471 and DD-471), 1942-1969 -- Activities, On Board and Miscellaneous Views


This page features views of USS Beale' activities, views taken on board her and miscellaneous images related to her.

For more views concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Beale (DD-471, later DDE-471 and DD-471), 1942-1969.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

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    Photo #: USN 1043094

    Task Group ALFA


    Formation portrait of the Atlantic Fleet anti-submarine group's ships and aircraft, taken during exercises in 1959 with Secretary of the Navy William B. Franke embarked.
    Ships include the group flagship, USS Valley Forge (CVS-45) in center, two submarines, and seven destroyers. Identifiable among the latter are USS Eaton (DDE-510) at left front, USS Beale (DDE-471) following Eaton, USS Waller (DDE-466) in the center foreground, and USS Conway (DDE-507) at right front. Aircraft overhead include two four-plane formations of S2F "Trackers" and three HSS-1 "Seabat" helicopters from the Valley Forge air group, plus one shore-based P2V "Neptune".

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph.

    Online Image: 87KB; 740 x 565 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system as Photo # 428-N-1043094.

     
    Photo #: USN 1043095

    Task Group ALFA


    Formation portrait of the anti-submarine group's ships and aircraft, taken during 1959 exercises in the Atlantic, while Secretary of the Navy William B. Franke was embarked.
    Ships include the group flagship, USS Valley Forge (CVS-45) in center, two submarines, and seven destroyers. Identifiable among the latter are USS Eaton (DDE-510) at left front, USS Beale (DDE-471) following Eaton, USS Waller (DDE-466) in the center foreground, and USS Conway (DDE-507) at right front.
    Aircraft overhead include two formations of S2F "Trackers" from the Valley Forge air group, plus one shore-based P2V "Neptune" from Norfolk Naval Air Station, Virginia. Two HSS-1 helicopters are flying low, directly over the submarines.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph.

    Online Image: 102KB; 740 x 615 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system as Photo # 428-N-1043095.

     
    Photo #: NH 96944

    USS Valley Forge (CVS-45)


    Steams in formation with other units of Task Force ALFA, during anti-submarine exercises in the Atlantic, 1959.
    The other ships present are (from left): USS Murray (DDE-576), USS Beale (DDE-471), USS Bache (DDE-470), USS Eaton (DDE-510), USS Conway (DDE-507), USS Cony (DDE-508) and USS Waller (DDE-466). Photograph was released for publication on 3 August 1959.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 110KB; 740 x 615 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 67963

    Destroyer Squadron Twenty-Eight


    Commanding officers of the squadron's ships display their Anti-Submarine Warfare "A" awards in a ceremony held on board one of the DesRon28 destroyers, circa the late 1950s or early 1960s.
    Flanking them are Vice Admiral Edmund B. Taylor, Commander Anti-Submarine Defense Force, Atlantic Fleet (at left) and Rear Admiral Frederick V.H. Hilles, Commander Destroyer Flotilla 4 (at right). The DesRon28 insignia is in the foreground.
    Those holding the "A" awards are identified in Photo # NH 67963 (complete caption).

    Photograph received from USS Waller, 1969.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 101KB; 740 x 615 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 103718

    USS Beale
    (DD-471)

    Crewmembers use a fire hose to cool the barrel of the ship's forward 5"/38 gun.
    Note the jumble of empty shell casings near the gun mount.
    Possibly taken during Beale's mid-1966 naval gunfire support operations off Vietnam.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 66KB; 740 x 530 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 103719

    USS Beale
    (DD-471)

    Two officers pose on the bridge wing with battle helmets and binoculars, possibly during combat operations off Vietnam in 1966.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 82KB; 505 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 103720

    USS Beale
    (DD-471)

    Scene in the ship's combat information center.
    Possibly taken during Beale's 1966 Vietnam war operations.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 78KB; 740 x 510 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 103729

    USS Beale
    (DD-471)

    Sponsor, Miss Nancy Beale, prepares to christen the ship, during launching ceremonies at the Bethlehem Steel Company shipyard, Staten Island, New York, 24 August 1942.
    Also present is Commander R.C. Bell, USN.

    Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1975.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 84KB; 740 x 595 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 67778-KN (Color)

    USS Beale (DDE-471)

    Emblem, probably dating from the 1950s, that was on file at the Naval History Division in 1969. It is not known if it was ever officially approved as the ship's insignia.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 129KB; 585 x 675 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 67154-KN (Color)

    USS Beale (DDE-471)

    Jacket patch of the ship's insignia, as used circa 1961, when a copy of the design was received from Destroyer Force, Atlantic Fleet. The emblem features a winged foot and an upright mailed fist on its shield. A trident and two porpoises rising from the waves form the crest.

    Courtesy of Captain G.F. Swainson, USN, 1969.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 158KB; 520 x 765 pixels

     


    For more views concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Beale (DD-471, later DDE-471 and DD-471), 1942-1969.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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