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

USS Quincy (CA-71), 1943-1974

USS Quincy, a 13,600-ton Baltimore class heavy cruiser, was built at Quincy, Massachusetts, and commissioned in December 1943. Following a Caribbean shakedown cruise and training in the North Atlantic, in May 1944 she reported to the 12th Fleet for service in European waters. During June 1944, Quincy provided gunfire support for the Normandy Invasion and bombarded German positions around Cherbourg, France. After steaming to the Mediterranean, the cruiser participated in the invasion of Southern France in August. She returned to the U.S. shortly thereafter.

In January and February 1945, Quincy transported President Franklin D. Roosevelt and his party most of the way to and from the Yalta Conference. When the conference was completed, she was the site of meetings between the President, King Farouk of Egypt, Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethopia and King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia. Upon her arrival back in the United States, Quincy was transferred to the Pacific, where she escorted the fast carriers as they conducted air strikes on targets in the Ryukyus and the Japanese Home Islands during the last five months of World War II. In mid-July, she used her own eight-inch guns to bombard an iron plant at Kamaishi, Japan. After Japan's capitulation in August, Quincy supported occupation efforts.

Quincy was decommissioned at Bremerton, Washington, in October 1946. However, the coming of the Korean War brought a need for more active gun ships and Quincy was recommissioned in January 1952. She made one Western Pacific deployment, arriving in July 1953, just as the conflict was negotiated to an end, and remained in Asiatic waters until December. She was again decommissioned in July 1954 and spent nearly two decades in "mothballs" at Bremerton. USS Quincy was stricken from the Naval Vessel Register in October 1973 and sold for scrapping in August 1974.

This page features selected views of USS Quincy (CA-71).

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Photo #: NH 82516

USS Quincy (CA-71)


In San Francisco Bay, California, 1945-46.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Photo #: NH 97424

USS Quincy (CA-71)


Underway in the Pacific during 1952-54.

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

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Photo #: NH 97423

USS Quincy (CA-71)


Underway in the Pacific during 1952-54.

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

Online Image: 138KB; 740 x 610 pixels

 
Photo #: 80-G-368078

General Dwight D. Eisenhower, U.S. Army


Inspects USS Quincy (CA-71) at Belfast Lough, Northern Ireland, 18 May 1944, shortly the Normandy Invasion. Rear Admiral Alan G. Kirk is following immediately behind.
Note Fleet Marine Force "seahorse" shoulder patch worn by the Marine at right.

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

Online Image: 76KB; 600 x 765 pixels

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

 
Photo #: NH 82515

Bombardment of Cherbourg, France, 25 June 1944


German shells spash off the bow of USS Quincy (CA-71) during the bombardment, as seen from her bridge.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 87KB; 740 x 610 pixels

 
Photo #: 80-G-K-1948 (Color)

USS Quincy (CA-71)

Two Vought OS2U "Kingfisher" floatplanes warming up on the cruiser's fantail prior to catapult launching, probably at the time of the Invasion of Southern France, August 1944. Note barrels of Quincy's after eight-inch guns in the foreground, hangar hatch cover and twin aircraft cranes at the ship's stern.

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

Online Image: 94KB; 740 x 525 pixels

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

 
Photo #: 80-G-K-1950 (Color)

USS Quincy (CA-71)

Vought OS2U "Kingfisher" floatplane is catapulted from the cruiser's stern, probably at the time of the Invasion of Southern France, August 1944.

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

Online Image: 77KB; 740 x 530 pixels

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

Note:
This image is not very sharp.

 
Photo #: 80-G-367853

Invasion of Southern France, August 1944


USS Quincy (CA-71) fires her forward 8"/55 guns off Toulon, France, while supporting the invasion, 16 August 1944.
Note smoke screen laid by the ship next ahead to prevent accurate counter-fire by German coastal artillery.

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

Online Image: 91KB; 740 x 600 pixels

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Photo #: USA C-548 (Color)

President Franklin D. Roosevelt (right)

Meets with Eqyptian King Farouk, on board USS Quincy (CA-71) in the Great Bitter Lake, Egypt, on 13 February 1945, following the Yalta Conference.
View looks aft along the cruiser's port side from atop her second eight-inch gun turret. Note 5"/38 twin gun mounts, 20mm guns and details of the ship's open bridge.

Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

Online Image: 112KB; 740 x 605 pixels

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Photo #: USA C-545 (Color)

President Franklin D. Roosevelt (right)

Meets with King Ibn Saud, of Saudi Arabia, on board USS Quincy (CA-71) in the Great Bitter Lake, Egypt, on 14 February 1945. The King is speaking to the interpreter, Colonel William A. Eddy, USMC.
Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy, USN, the President's Aide and Chief of Staff, is at left.
Note ornate carpet on the ship's deck, and life raft mounted on the side of the 5"/38 twin gun mount in the background.

Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

Online Image: 92KB; 740 x 505 pixels

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

 
Photo #: 80-G-339379

Surrender of Japan, 1945


Two Third Fleet heavy cruisers anchored in Sagami Wan, outside of Tokyo Bay, Japan, 28 August 1945.
Closest ship is USS Quincy (CA-71). The other is USS Boston (CA-69).
Photographed by Lt. G.D. Rogers, of USS Shangri-La (CV-38).

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

Online Image: 145KB; 740 x 605 pixels

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

 


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


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10 November 2000