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Photo # NH 98874:  USS Epperson underway off Oahu, Hawaii, 12 February 1968

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-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Epperson (DD-719), 1949-1977 --
1964 and Later Views


This page features all the views we have related to USS Epperson (DD-719) during and after her 1964 FRAM I modernization.

For earlier images concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Epperson (DDE-719, later DD-719), 1949-1977.


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

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

    Photo #: NH 98872

    USS Epperson (DD-719)


    In drydock at the Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard, Hawaii, undergoing her FRAM I modernization, 14 April 1964.
    Photographed by Joseph Demattos.

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

    Online Image: 126KB; 740 x 610 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 98873

    USS Epperson (DD-719)


    Underway off Oahu, Hawaii, circa the later 1960s.

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

    Online Image: 104KB; 680 x 676 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 98874

    USS Epperson (DD-719)


    Underway off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii, 12 February 1968.
    Photographed by PHCM/AC Louis P. Bodine.

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

    Online Image: 101KB; 740 x 605 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 98875

    USS Epperson (DD-719)


    Operating off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii, 29 August 1968.
    Photographed by PHCM/AC Louis P. Bodine, of squadron VC-1.

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

    Online Image: 120KB; 740 x 610 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 98876

    USS Epperson (DD-719)


    Underway off the coast of Hawaii, 18 December 1969.
    Photographed by PH2 D.L. Fry.

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

    Online Image: 77KB; 740 x 535 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 67183-KN (color)

    USS Epperson (DD-719)

    Jacket patch of the Engineering Department's insignia, as used in 1967. The design's background is the Destroyer Squadron 25 insignia, overlaid with a "confident lion" and the motto "We Can Handle It".

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

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 146KB; 565 x 675 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 81847-KN (color)

    Insignia: USS Epperson (DD-719)

    Emblem adopted in 1974. Its design alludes to her duty as Naval Reserve Training ship at Seattle, Washington.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 102KB; 650 x 675 pixels

     


    In addition to the images presented above, the National Archives appears to hold other 1964 and later views of USS Epperson (DD-719). 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".


  • Photo #: Navy KN-10507 (color)
    USS Epperson (DD-719) underway at high speed off the coast of Oahu, Hawaii, 9 December 1964. Photographed by PHC Stoyer
    Port bow aerial view, with the ship's bow wave reaching as high as her main deck below her forward 5"/38 twin gun mount.


  • Photo #: Navy KN-13659 (color)
    USS Epperson (DD-719) underway in Hawaiian waters, 7 September 1966. Photographed by PH1 R.N Sheffield.
    Starboard bow low aerial view.

  • Photo #: Navy KN-13660 (color)
    As Navy KN-13659, but port bow low aerial view


    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".

  • For earlier images concerning this ship, see:

  • USS Epperson (DDE-719, later DD-719), 1949-1977.


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


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