USS Tucson, last of the four 6,000-ton Oakland class light cruisers, was built at San Francisco, California. She was placed in commission in February 1945 and reached the Pacific war zone in June of that year. For the next two months, Tucson operated with the Third Fleet's aircraft carrier striking forces, taking part in attacks on the Japanese home islands. After Japan capitulated in mid-August, she briefly remained in the Far East to support occupation activities before returning to the U.S. West Coast in October 1945.
During the rest of 1945 and well into 1946 Tucson served off California as a anti-aircraft gunnery training ship. Operating as a unit of the Pacific Fleet during the following three years, she made a cruise to Hawaii in February and March 1947 and served in Asian waters during August-October 1948. Decommissioned in June 1949, a few months after she had been reclassified CLAA-98, USS Tucson was part of the Pacific Reserve Fleet until stricken from the Naval Vessel Register in June 1966. Subsequently used as a test hulk, she was sold for scrapping in February 1971.
This page features all the views we have related to USS Tucson (CL-98, later CLAA-98).
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In addition to the images presented above, the National Archives appears to hold other views related to USS Tucson (CL-98, later CLAA-98). The following list features some of these photographs:
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".
USS Tucson (CL-98) underway on 22 March 1945. Photographed from an blimp of airship squadron ZP-31. Starboard bow aerial view. The original negative is disfigured by ink spotting. As 80-G-312674, but starboard quarter aerial view.
USS Tucson (CL-98) underway, circa the later 1940s. This view was received by the Naval Photographic Center in December 1959, but was actually taken more than a decade earlier. Starboard bow aerial view.
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." |
Page made 8 June 2003