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

USS Reeves (DE-156, later APD-52), 1943-1960

USS Reeves, a 1400-ton Buckley class escort ship built at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia, was commissioned in June 1943. She escorted Atlantic convoys until September 1944, then began conversion to a high speed transport. Redesignated APD-52, Reeves went to the Pacific early in 1945 and took part in the Ryukyus campaign. At the end of the War, she moved up to Japan to support the repatriation of prisoners of war and other occupation activities. Returning to the United States in late 1945, she was decommissioned in July 1946 and was laid up at Green Cove Springs, Florida. USS Reeves remained in the Atlantic reserve fleet until June 1960 and was then transferred to Ecuador for use as a floating electric power plant.

USS Reeves (DE-156/APD-52) was named in honor of Chief Radioman Thomas James Reeves, who was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for heroism during the 7 December 1941 Japanese air raid on Pearl Harbor.

This page features our only view related to USS Reeves and provides information on other photographs that may be available from the National Archives.

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 #: 80-G-338187

Surrender of Japan, 1945


Former U.S. Navy prisoners of war on board USS Reeves (APD-52) in Tokyo Bay, Japan, after being transferred from USS Benevolence (AH-13), 30 August 1945. They had just been liberated from the Nisson Mills Camp # 2, in the Tokyo Area.

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

Online Image: 96KB; 740 x 615 pixels

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

 


While the Naval Historical Center has no other views of USS Reeves, the National Archives appears to hold additional photographs. 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 "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions.".



  • Photo #: 80-G-224699
    USS Reeves (DE-156) underway off New York, 17 April 1944. Port broadside aerial view, somewhat toward the bow, taken from a 400-foot altitude.

  • Photo #: 80-G-1024335
    USS Reeves (APD-52) off the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, in December 1944, after completing conversion to a high speed transport. Port broadside surface view, showing the ship in pattern camouflage.


    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 "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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    Page made 14 March 1999
    Coding upgraded & links added 3 December 2000