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Photo # NH 95754:  USS Oklahoma City off the Philadelphia Navy Yard, circa 9 April 1945

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USS Oklahoma City (CL-91, later CLG-5), 1944-1999

USS Oklahoma City, a 10,000-ton Cleveland class light cruiser built at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was commissioned a few days before Christmas 1944. She worked up in the western Atlantic area, then went to the Pacific in the spring of 1945 to join the war against Japan. In early June she arrived in the western Pacific to begin escorting Third Fleet aircraft carriers as they launched raids against enemy forces and facilities in the vicinity of Okinawa and the Japanese home islands. After the fighting ended in mid-August Oklahoma City remained in the region until late January 1946. She then steamed to the U.S. West Coast, where she was decommissioned at the end of June 1947.

After nearly a decade in "mothballs" Oklahoma City was removed from the Pacific Reserve Fleet and entered a San Francisco, California, shipyard to begin conversion to a guided missile cruiser. In keeping with her intended new capabilities, she was redesignated CLG-5 in May 1957. Her history is continued in the page USS Oklahoma City (CLG-5, later CG-5).

This page features all the views we have related to USS Oklahoma City (CL-91, later CLG-5) as a light cruiser, and provides links to others of her after conversion to a guided missile cruiser.

For images related to this ship after conversion to a guided missile light cruiser, see:

  • USS Oklahoma City (CLG-5, later CG-5).


    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 95754

    USS Oklahoma City (CL-91)


    Off the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, circa 9 April 1945.

    Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Institute, Annapolis, Maryland. Collection of James C. Fahey.

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

    Online Image: 92KB; 740 x 600 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 95752

    USS Oklahoma City (CL-91)


    Underway off the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, 9 April 1945.

    Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Institute, Annapolis, Maryland. Collection of James C. Fahey.

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

    Online Image: 78KB; 740 x 600 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 95753

    USS Oklahoma City (CL-91)


    Underway in the Delaware river, while operating out of the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, 9 April 1945.

    Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Institute, Annapolis, Maryland. Collection of James C. Fahey.

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

    Online Image: 102KB; 740 x 600 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 75598

    USS Oklahoma City (CL-91)


    Launching, at the Cramp shipyard, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 20 February 1944.

    Courtesy of James Russell, 1972.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 95KB; 595 x 765 pixels

     

    For images related to this ship after conversion to a guided missile light cruiser, see:

  • USS Oklahoma City (CLG-5, later CG-5. Previously CL-91).


    In addition to the images presented above, the National Archives appears to hold at least one other view of USS Oklahoma City (CL-91). The following list features this image:

    The image listed below is NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections.
    DO NOT try to obtain it using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".



  • Photo #: 80-G-664229
    USS Oklahoma City (CL-91) underway at sea, 1945.
    Starboard broadside surface view.


    Reproductions of this image should be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system for pictures not held by the Naval Historical Center.

    The image listed in this box is NOT in the Naval Historical Center's collections. DO NOT try to obtain it using the procedures described in our page "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions".


  • For images related to this ship after conversion to a guided missile light cruiser, see:

  • USS Oklahoma City (CLG-5, later CG-5).


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


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