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Photo # USN 1133001:  One of USS Turner Joy's 5-inch guns firing off Vietnam, June 1968

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USS Turner Joy (DD-951), 1959-1991 -- Part II


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    Photo #: USN 1097351

    USS Kitty Hawk (CVA-63)
    , and
    USS Turner Joy (DD-951)

    Refueling from USS Kawishiwi (AO-146), 23 April 1964.
    Note the large "E" in a shield spelled out by crewmen on the carrier's flight deck.
    Photographed by PHCS Brown, USN.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph.

    Online Image: 149KB; 740 x 615 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system as Photo # 428-N-1097351.

     
    Photo #: NH 96350

    Tonkin Gulf Incident, August 1964


    Tracks of USS Maddox (DD-731) and USS Turner Joy (DD-951), 3-5 August 1964, during the second part of the Gulf of Tonkin incident.
    Chart prepared for "The United States Navy and the Vietnam Conflict", Volume II, page 423.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 56KB; 740 x 545 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 96351

    Tonkin Gulf Incident, August 1964


    Track chart of the action involving USS Maddox (DD-731) and USS Turner Joy (DD-951) on the night of 4 August 1964, during the second part of the Gulf of Tonkin incident. Many of the observations reflected in this chart were later determined to be inaccurate.
    Chart prepared for "The United States Navy and the Vietnam Conflict", Volume II, page 430.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 61KB; 530 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 98261

    USS Turner Joy (DD-951)


    One of the ship's three 5"/54 Mark 42 gun mounts, showing paint on the barrel blistered and charred from day and night gunfire support operations south of the Vietnam Demilitarized Zone, April 1968.
    Photographed by JO1 Willard B. Bass, Jr.

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

    Online Image: 65KB; 590 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: USN 1133001

    USS Turner Joy (DD-951)


    Firing one of her three 5"/54 Mark 42 gun mounts (Mount 52) toward an enemy shore position in Vietnam, 20 June 1968. Note the ejected powder canister flying through the air in front of the gun mount, and other powder canisters stacked on deck in the foreground.
    Photographed by JO1 Willard B. Bass, Jr., USN.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph.

    Online Image: 63KB; 740 x 515 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system as Photo # 428-N-1133001.

     
    Photo #: USN 1143901

    USS Turner Joy (DD-951)


    Crewman handles a five-inch gun projectile, during Vietnam War operations in the South China Sea, February 1970.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph.

    Online Image: 59KB; 515 x 765 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system as Photo # 428-N-1143901.

     
    Photo #: K-83111

    USS Pyro (AE-24)


    Highlines two pallets of five-inch gun powder canisters to USS Turner Joy (DD-951), during Vietnam War underway replenishment operations in the South China Sea, March 1970. Photographed from on board Turner Joy.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph.

    Online Image: 123KB; 740 x 535 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system as Photo # 428-K-83111.
    Though reproductions of this photo from the Naval Historical Center's collections are available in black & white only, those from the National Archives should be available in color.

     
    Photo #: NH 69615-KN (Color)

    USS Turner Joy (DD-951)

    Jacket patch of the insignia used in 1964.

    Courtesy of Captain G.F. Swainson, USN, 1970.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

    Online Image: 165KB; 565 x 765 pixels

     

    For more images of and related to this ship, see:

  • USS Turner Joy (DD-951), 1959-1991.


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


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