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Photo # 80-G-K-3813 (cropped):  USS Flint in harbor, probably at Ulithi circa late March 1945

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-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Flint (CL-97, later CLAA-97), 1944-1966

USS Flint, a 6,000-ton Oakland class light cruiser built at San Francisco, California, was commissioned at the end of August 1944. After shaking down along the West Coast, she arrived in the western Pacific war zone in late December and during January 1945 served with the fast carriers as they struck enemy targets in support of the invasion of Luzon. She continued in the carrier escort role in February and March, during the Iwo Jima landings and raids against the Japanese Home Islands. Over the following three months, as the prolonged fight for Okinawa was brought to a successful conclusion, Flint screened fleet units and conducted shore bombardment operations. In July and August 1945, she participated in the Third Fleet's strikes against targets in Japan, and briefly remained in the area to support initial occupation efforts following the conclusion of hostilities.

Flint headed eastbound across the Pacific in October 1945, helping to bring home war veterans as part of Operation "Magic Carpet". She made a similar round-trip voyage to and from the central Pacific later in the year. Inactive at Bremerton, Washington, after January 1946, the cruiser was decommissioned there in May 1947. She was was reclassified CLAA-97 in March 1949 and remained in the Pacific Reserve Fleet until stricken from the Naval Vessel Register in September 1965. USS Flint was sold for scrapping in October 1966.

This page features all the views we have related to USS Flint (CL-97, later CLAA-97).


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Photo #: NH 64665

USS Flint (CL-97)


Off San Francisco, California, 18 September 1944.
The original print has been annotated to identify radar and other antennas.

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

Online Image: 87KB; 740 x 595 pixels

 
Photo #: 80-G-K-3813 (Color)

USS Flint (CL-97)

Probably at Ulithi Atoll, circa late March 1945, as the Fifth Fleet was departing for the Okinawa operation. Two aircraft carriers, a destroyer and a battleship are in the background.
Photographed from USS West Virginia (BB-48).
See Photo # 80-G-K-3813 (cropped) for a version of this image that has been cropped to emphasize Flint.

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

Online Image: 94KB; 590 x 765 pixels

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

 
Photo #: NH 98513

USS Flint (CL-97)


At anchor at a western Pacific base, circa mid-1945.

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

Online Image: 70KB; 740 x 610 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 98511

USS Flint (CL-97)


Ready for christening, at the Bethlehem Steel Company shipyard, San Francisco, California, 25 January 1944.

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

Online Image: 57KB; 600 x 765 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 98512

USS Flint (CL-97)


Launching, at the Bethlehem Steel Company shipyard, San Francisco, California, 25 January 1944.

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

Online Image: 75KB; 600 x 765 pixels

 
Photo #: 80-G-K-14276 (Color)

USS Flint (CL-97)

Ship's officers saluting during her commissioning ceremonies, at the Bethlehem Steel Company shipyard, San Francisco, California, on 31 August 1944.
The view looks south.

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

Online Image: 134KB; 765 x 600 pixels

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

 


In addition to the images presented above, the National Archives appears to hold other views related to USS Flint (CL-97, later CLAA-97). The following list features some of these photographs:

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 #: 80-G-280682
    USS Flint (CL-97) underway, probably in San Francisco Bay, 21 September 1944. Photographed from an aircraft based at NAS Alameda, California.
    Port broadside (somewhat toward the bow) high aerial view. The ship is painted in pattern camouflage.

  • Photo #: 80-G-316168
    USS Flint (CL-97) underway at sea on 28 March 1945, seen from USS McCord (DD-534). Photographed by PhoM3c M. Cvitanovich.
    Starboard quarter surface view. Flint is still painted in Measure 33, Design 22d pattern camouflage.

  • Photo #: 80-G-316169
    USS Flint (CL-97) underway at sea on 28 March 1945, with USS Taluga (AO-62) steaming alongside, to starboard of Flint. Photographed by PhoM3c M. Cvitanovich from on board USS McCord (DD-534).
    Starboard quarter surface view, rather more toward the stern than in 80-G-316168.

  • Photo #: 80-G-337133
    USS Flint (CL-97) steams into the Golden Gate, en route to San Francisco, California, circa mid-1944.
    Photographed from the cruiser's superstructure, looking forward over her bow. Five-inch gun mounts in the foreground are painted in Camouflage Measure 33, Design 22d.
    This view was received by the Naval Photographic Science Laboratory on 28 August 1945, accompanied by a caption looking forward to Flint's homecoming after the conclusion of World War II.


    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."


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