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Photo # USN 1074969:  USS Marshall comes alongside USS Coral Sea, off the California coast, 7 March 1963

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-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Marshall (DD-676), 1943-1970

USS Marshall, a 2050-ton Fletcher class destroyer, was built at Kearny, New Jersey. Commissioned in mid-October 1943, during her shakedown operations in the Atlantic in December the new destroyer helped escort President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the last leg of his trip home from the Teheran Conference. The following month Marshall steamed through the Panama Canal to join the Pacific Fleet. As part of the screen for Task Force 58, the Navy's main striking force, she participated in attacks throughout the Central Pacific in March, April and May 1944, and in the Marianas Campaign and the Battle of the Philippine Sea in June and July. During September and October, still serving as a fleet escort, Marshall took part in the Palaus operation, raids on Japanese bases in the Western Pacific, the Leyte Campaign and the Battle of Leyte Gulf.

Marshall's task force continued its operations in the Philippines area for the rest of 1944 and the first weeks of the New Year. In February 1945 it hit targets in the Japanese home islands and supported the struggle to seize Iwo Jima. More strikes on Japan came in March, followed by the hard battle for Okinawa. Marshall left combat in May and steamed back to the United States for overhaul. The war was over before this work was finished, and she was decommissioned in December 1945.

Recommissioned in April 1951, Marshall made two Korean War tours in 1951-52 and in 1952-53, serving on carrier escort, shore bombardment and blockade duties, as well as patrolling off Formosa. During the post-Korean War decade, Marshall frequently operated with the Seventh Fleet in the Far East. She became a Naval Reserve training ship in September 1964, based at Tacoma, Washington. With her active service completed, USS Marshall was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register in July 1969 and sold for scrapping in 1970.

USS Marshall was named in honor of Lieutenant Commander Thomas W. Marshall, Jr. (1906-1942), who was killed in action during the sinking of USS Jacob Jones (DD-130) in February 1942.

This page features all the views we have related to USS Marshall (DD-676).


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Photo #: NH 98072

USS Marshall (DD-676)


Photographed circa late 1943, at about the time of her delivery to the Navy.
This image has been retouched by wartime censors to remove the radar antenna atop the ship's Mark 37 gun director. However, the radar antennas on her foremast remain visible.

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

Online Image: 49KB; 740 x 505 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 98074

USS Marshall (DD-676)


Underway at sea, circa 1951-1953, while she was still fitted with a pole foremast and World War II era search radars.
Note the escort aircraft carrier (CVE) in the center distance.

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

Online Image: 104KB; 740 x 615 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 98073

USS Marshall (DD-676)


Photographed circa the mid-1950s, after installation of her new tripod foremast and SPS-6 air search radar.
Note that the ship still retains her World War II era fire control radars, mounted atop her Mark 37 gun director.

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

Online Image: 116KB; 740 x 600 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 98075

USS Marshall (DD-676)


At sea, 21 October 1962.
Photographed by PH3 W.C. Maxwell, of USS Ranger (CVA-61).

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

Online Image: 80KB; 740 x 605 pixels

 
Photo #: USN 1074969

USS Marshall (DD-676)


Pulling alongside USS Coral Sea (CVA-43), during refueling exercises off the California coast, 7 March 1963.
Photographed by AN D. Peters.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph.

Online Image: 81KB; 740 x 610 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system as Photo # 428-N-1074969.

 
Photo #: NH 98076

USS Marshall (DD-676)


Underway on 19 February 1964.
Photographed by Commander Cruiser-Destroyer Force, Pacific Fleet.

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

Online Image: 128KB; 740 x 605 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 91826

Destroyer Squadron 17


Photographed at the foot of Broadway, San Diego, California, in March 1955.
Destroyers in front row include (left to right):
USS Twining (DD-540);
USS Erben (DD-631);
USS Halsey Powell (DD-686) and
USS Gregory (DD-802).
Behind them are (left to right):
USS Shields (DD-596);
USS Colahan (DD-658);
USS Marshall (DD-676) and
USS Porterfield (DD-682).
USS Kearsarge (CVA-33) is tied up in the left distance, at Naval Air Station, North Island.
Structure in the bottom center is the "Naval Destroyer Boat House".

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 107KB; 740 x 605 pixels

 


In addition to the images presented above, the National Archives appears to hold other views of USS Marhsall (DD-676). 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 #: 80-G-86421
    USS Marshall (DD-676) underway at high speed, off New York City, on 6 November 1943. Photographed by Naval Air Station New York.
    Bow-on high aerial view, taken from slightly to port.

  • Photo #: 80-G-86423
    USS Marshall (DD-676) underway at high speed, off New York City, on 6 November 1943. Photographed by Naval Air Station New York.
    Port bow aerial view.

  • Photo #: 80-G-86424
    USS Marshall (DD-676) underway at high speed, off New York City, on 6 November 1943. Photographed by Naval Air Station New York.
    Starboard quarter aerial view.

  • Photo #: 80-G-86427
    USS Marshall (DD-676) underway at high speed, off New York City, on 6 November 1943. Photographed by Naval Air Station New York.
    Starboard bow aerial view, showing the ship rather more distantly than the other photographs in this series.


  • Photo #: 80-G-481626
    USS Marshall (DD-676) underway, arriving at San Diego, California, on 8 May 1953. Photographed by PHC R.J. Krenik.
    Starboard bow aerial view. The ship has a tripod foremast, bur still retains her World War II era radars.

  • Photo #: 80-G-481630
    USS Marshall (DD-676) underway, arriving at San Diego, California, on 8 May 1953. Photographed by PHC R.J. Krenik.
    Aerial view, taken from off the ship's stern, slightly to starboard. The ship still has 20mm guns mounted on her fantail.


  • Photo #: USN 1078706
    USS Marshall (DD-676) in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, January 1960. Photographed by Willison.
    Starboard broadside surface view, taken from well forward of amidships.

  • Photo #: USN 1062464
    USS Marshall (DD-676) comes alongside USS Ticonderoga (CVA-14) for refueling operations, 27 September 1962. Photographed by PH3 R.L. Smith.
    Port bow surface view, taken from about the height of Marshall's pilothouse. A small amount of Ticonderoga's catwalk is visible in the foreground.

    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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