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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Latimer (APA-152), 1944-1971

USS Latimer, a 6873-ton Haskell class attack transport built at Portland, Oregon, was commissioned in August 1944. Following shakedown, she carried troops to the South Pacific, then participated in the invasions of Luzon in January 1945 and Okinawa in April. During the remainder of World War II and in the early post-war era, she provided general transportation services. In March 1946, Latimer transferred to the Atlantic, and was placed in reserve at Norfolk, Virginia, in February 1947.

The Korean War crisis brought Latimer back into commission in September 1950. Thereafter, she served in the Atlantic Fleet, making deployments to the Mediterranean in 1951-52 and 1954-55. She was again decommissioned in May 1956. USS Latimer was sold for scrapping in October 1971.

This page features all the views we have of USS Latimer (APA-152).

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

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Photo #: NH 97011

USS Latimer (APA-152)


Off San Francisco, California, 18 May 1945.

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

Online Image: 97KB; 740 x 605 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 97012

USS Latimer (APA-152)


Undergoing reactivation at Norfolk, Virginia, 3 August 1950. She was the first ship of the Norfolk Reserve Fleet to be removed from "mothballs" during the Korean War crisis.

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

Online Image: 105KB; 740 x 620 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 83476

USS Latimer (APA-152)


At Toulon, France, 24 October 1951.

Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1975.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 66KB; 740 x 470 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 97003

USS Latimer (APA-152)


"Doors marked 'Sealed 11-10-48--Do Not Open' were found by Boilerman First Class J.W. Roach ..., when opened aboard USS Latimer ..., first vessel of the Norfolk Reserve Fleet to be readied for recommissioning."
Quoted caption was released with this photo on 3 August 1950.
Latimer had decommissioned at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, on 26 February 1947. She recommissioned on 23 September 1950, as the active fleet was being expanded during the Korean War.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the "All Hands" collection at the Naval Historical Center.

Online Image: 137KB; 595 x 765 pixels

 


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5 October 1999