USS Duluth, a 10,000-ton Cleveland class light cruiser, was built at Newport News, Virginia. Commissioned in September 1944 she spent the rest of 1944 and the first three months of 1945 on shakedown and training duties along the U.S. East Coast. Duluth steamed to the Pacific in April 1945 and arrived in the war zone in late May to begin World War II combat operations. Her bow was damaged in a typhoon on 5 June, but she was repaired during the next month and served in a screening role during the final three weeks of carrier air strikes on the Japanese Home Islands. Following the enemy's mid-August decision to surrender, the cruiser continued to escort aircraft carriers as they covered the initial occupation of Japan.
In October 1945 Duluth recrossed the Pacific to the U.S. West Coast, but deployed back to the Far East during the first nine months of 1946. She again cruised in Western Pacific waters between February 1947 and May 1948, visiting Australia, Truk, Guam and the Philippines, as well as operating off the coast of China. In the summer of 1948 the ship served on training missions in the Eastern Pacific and, early in 1949 was active off Alaska. Decommissioned in June 1949, Duluth spent the next ten years in the Reserve Fleet. She was stricken from the Navy list in January 1960 and sold for scrapping in September of that year.
This page features all the views we have related to USS Duluth (CL-87).
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In addition to the images presented above, the National Archives appears to hold other views of USS Duluth (CL-87). 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 Duluth (CL-87) underway at low speed in the Hampton Roads, Virginia, 11 December 1944. Photographed from a Naval Air Station Norfolk aircraft. High aerial view, taken from off the ship's port quarter. USS Duluth (CL-87) underway off the U.S. East Coast, circa October-December 1944. Port broadside aerial view, with radar antennas painted out of the image to prepare it for public release. USS Pittsburgh (CA-72) alongside USS Duluth (CL-87), at Guam, with her bow broken off. Photographed soon soon after she arrived there for temporary repairs, circa mid-June 1945. Starboard bow surface view, with Duluth moored to Pittsburgh's port side.
USS Duluth (CL-87) "of Task Force 38 passing MacQuarie Pt., as it heads out to sea", 27 May 1947. Photographed by USS Antietam (CV-36). Port broadside surface view, a little toward the bow, with a city skyline in the background. USS Duluth (CL-87) "of Task Force 38 at anchor in Truk Islands", 6 June 1947. Photographed by USS Antietam (CV-36). Port bow aerial view, rather more toward the side than toward the bow. The ship's port anchor is hanging down from its hawse, almost touching the water.
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". |
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Page made 28 February 2003