USS Bush, a 2050-ton Fletcher class destroyer built at San Francisco, California, was placed in commission in May 1943. Between July and November of that year she served in Alaskan waters on patrol and escort duty. The destroyer then went to the southwest Pacific where she participated in the amphibious operations to seize western New Britain, the Admiralty Islands, and northwestern New Guinea from late December 1943 to March 1944.
Following overhaul on the West Coast, Bush returned to the war zone in time to take part in the assaults on Morotai in September, Leyte in October and Mindoro in December 1944. From January to April 1945 she was active during the landings at Lingayen Gulf, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Bush had been slightly damaged while fighting off a Japanese air attack off Leyte on 1 November 1944 but faced much worse conditions while serving as a radar picket off Okinawa. On 6 April she was the target of suicide planes that made three hits, nearly cutting her in two. Her weakened hull folded amidships and USS Bush sank with the loss of nearly a third of her crew.
This page features all the views we have related to USS Bush (DD-529).
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Photo #: NH 98928 USS Bush (DD-529) Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 11 June 1944. Her camouflage is Measure 32, Design 1d. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. Online Image: 72KB; 740 x 610 pixels |
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Photo #: 80-G-187954 USS Bush (DD-529) Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 11 June 1944. Her camouflage is Measure 32, Design 1d. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 84KB; 740 x 590 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: NH 98929 USS Bush (DD-529) Seen from ahead, while apparently recovering her whaleboat off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 11 June 1944. Her camouflage is Measure 32, Design 1d. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. Online Image: 64KB; 740 x 610 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 98930 USS Bush (DD-529) Seen from astern, while underway off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 11 June 1944. Note the stern pattern of her Measure 32, Design 1d camouflage. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. Online Image: 56KB; 740 x 615 pixels |
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Photo #: NH 98931 USS Bush (DD-529) Plan view aft, taken from a pierside crane at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 16 June 1944. USS Salt Lake City (CA-25) is partially visible in the upper right. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center. Online Image: 187KB; 605 x 765 pixels |
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In addition to the images presented above, the National Archives appears to hold other views of USS Bush (DD-529). The following list features some of these images:
The images listed below are NOT in
the Naval Historical Center's collections.
DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our
page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".
USS Bush (DD-529) in San Francisco Bay, California, 15 May 1943. Taken from an aircraft based at NAS Alameda, Calif. Port broadside aerial view, with the ship at rest or underway at very low speed. As 80-G-66368, but starboard broadside high aerial view. Shot with the sun beyond Bush, this view features very dramatic highlights on the water, with the ship's deck well-lighted but her starboard side in shadow.
Reproductions of these images should be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system for pictures not held by the Naval Historical Center. The images listed in this box are NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections. DO NOT try to obtain them using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions". |
If you want higher resolution reproductions than the digital images presented here, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions." |
Page made 18 November 2003