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-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Springfield (CL-66, later CLG-7 & CG-7), 1944-1980 --
National Archives Photos


This page features photographs of USS Springfield (CL-66, later CLG-7) that should be available from the National Archives.

For more images related to this ship, see:

  • USS Springfield (CL-66, later CLG-7 & CG-7), 1944-1980.


    In addition to the images presented on other pages, the National Archives appears to hold other views of USS Springfield (CL-66, later CLG-7). 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-348328
    USS Springfield (CL-66) underway in the Western Pacific, 21 August 1945. Photographed from USS Ticonderoga (CV-14).
    Port broadside surface view, with bedding hanging on the ship's lifelines. Springfield is painted in the overall dark grey of camouflage Measure 21.

  • Photo #: USN 1106438
    USS Springfield (CL-66) underway at low speed, circa 1948. Photographed by Ted Stone.
    Starboard bow aerial view.


  • Photo #: USN 1050032
    USS Springfield (CLG-7) underway at low speed upon completion of conversion to a guided-missile cruiser, July 1960.
    Starboard bow surface view.

  • Photo #: USN 1050033
    As above, but starboard broadside surface view.

  • Photo #: USN 1050034
    As above, but starboard quarter surface view.

  • Photo #: USN 1050039
    USS Springfield (CLG-7) underway at sea after completion of conversion to a guided-missile cruiser, July 1960. Photographed by PH2 Sain.
    Port bow low aerial view, shot from about the level of the top of Springfield's smokestacks.

  • Photo #: USN 1049558
    USS Springfield (CLG-7) commissioning ceremonies, at Boston Naval Shipyard, Charlestown, Massachusetts, 2 July 1960. Photographed by W. Barcos.
    Taken from off the ship's stern, somewhat to starboard, while she was alongside a pier. Her crew, in "Whites", is standing at attention on deck and the U.S. National Ensign is flying from her stern flagstaff. There is a large crowd on the pier.

  • Photo #: USN 1055877
    USS Springfield (CLG-7) underway at sea, seen from USS Des Moines, which she is relieving as flagship of the Sixth Fleet. Photographed by Brewster.
    Springfield is seen at a moderate distance from off the port bow, framed in clouds, with some of Des Moines' structure and crewmen in the foreground. The ships are seen in silhouette against a light sky.

  • Photo #: USN 1062170
    USS Springfield (CLG-7) underway in the Mediterranean Sea, 7 January 1961. Photographed by PH1 R.N. Finkbeiner.
    Starboard bow low aerial view, shot from about the level of the top of Springfield's smokestacks.

  • Photo #: USN 1054642
    USS Springfield (CLG-7) operating with the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean Sea, 18 March 1961. Photographed by PH1 Dolwick, of USS Forrestal (CVA-59).
    Starboard broadside aerial view, showing the ship underway at sea.

  • Photo #: USN 1058447
    USS Springfield (CLG-7) underway in the Mediterranean Sea, 2 November 1961. Photographed by PHC Stead, of USS Independence (CVA-62).
    Starboard bow high aerial view, relatively tight on the bow.

  • Photo #: USN 1058448
    As above, but starboard side aerial view, somewhat toward the bow.

  • Photo #: USN 1066629
    USS Springfield (CLG-7) moored in harbor at Naples, Italy, seen from USS Boston (CAG-1), 19 September 1962. Photographed by Seaman Chriske.
    Starboard bow surface view, with the city of Naples visible behind the ship.

  • Photo #: USN 1080773
    USS Springfield (CLG-7) fires a "Terrier" guided missile during practice off the coast of France, 29 April 1963.
    Starboard broadside surface view, somewhat toward the stern, with smoke from the missile shrouding much of the ship's after superstructure.

  • Photo #: K-86163 (color)
    USS Springfield (CLG-7) visits Naples, Italy, for the change of command ceremony for Commander, Sixth Fleet, 26 August 1970. Photographed by PH1(AC) Richard A. Pendergist.
    Starboard broadside aerial view, moderately distant, showing the ship in Naples harbor with the city beyond.

  • Photo #: K-87034 (color)
    USS Springfield (CLG-7) moored at Gaeta, Italy, 30 October 1970. Photographed by PH1 J. Francavillo.
    Port bow surface view, with a mooring bouy to starboard, near the ship's bow.

  • Photo #: K-88273 (color)
    USS Springfield (CLG-7) passes a lighthouse as she departs Gaeta, Italy, 9 February 1971. Photographed by PHC B.M. Andersen.
    Port broadside surface view, somewhat toward the stern. A large building, with a lighthouse tower on one corner, is in the right third of the image.

  • Photo #: K-91672 (color)
    USS Springfield (CLG-7) anchored in Souda Bay, Crete. Taken by a photographer from USS America (CVA-66), this image was received by the Naval Photographic Center in November 1971.
    Starboard bow low aerial view, taken from about the height of Springfield's smokestacks.


    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".

  • For more images related to this ship, see:

  • USS Springfield (CL-66, later CLG-7 & CG-7), 1944-1980.


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