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Photo # NH 98891:  USS Yarnall off the Mare Island Navy Yard, 11 June 1945

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-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Yarnall (DD-541), 1943-1968

USS Yarnall, a 2050-ton Fletcher class destroyer, was built at San Francisco, California. Commissioned in late December 1943, she spent the first half of 1944 on shakedown and training tasks. In June she provided bombardment and anti-aircraft gunfire support for the invasion of Saipan. The following month she had similar duties during the assult on nearby Tinian. Beginning in late August 1944, Yarnall was part of Task Force 38. In that role she screened the fast aircraft carriers during their raids throughout the western Pacific and in the October 1944 Battle of Leyte Gulf. She continued to escort the carriers during January-March 1945, as they supported the Luzon and Iwo Jima invasions and struck targets in the Japanese home islands.

Badly damaged in a collision on the night of 4-5 March 1945, Yarnall was sent to the U.S. West Coast for repairs and overhaul. She was en route back to the war zone when hostilities ceased in mid-August and was present in Tokyo Bay on 2 September 1945 when Japan formally surrendered. Returning to the U.S. later in the year, she was inactive at San Diego, California, until placed out of commission in January 1947.

The needs of the Korean War brought Yarnall back into commissioned service at the end of February 1951. She subsequently had two combat deployments off the embattled peninsula, the first in June-December 1951 and the second from August 1952 to January 1953. For the next five years the destroyer continued her Pacific Ocean service, deploying regularly to the Far East for tours of duty with the Seventh Fleet. Decommissioned again in September 1958, USS Yarnall was in reserve for nearly a decade. She was transferred to the Republic of China's Navy in June 1968. Renamed Kun Yang, she remained in Taiwanese service until 1999.

This page features all the views we have concerning USS Yarnall (DD-541).


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Photo #: NH 98891

USS Yarnall (DD-541)


Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 11 June 1945.

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

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Photo #: NH 98892

USS Yarnall (DD-541)


Is tugged away from the waterfront at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 11 June 1945.

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

Online Image: 82KB; 740 x 615 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 98893

USS Yarnall (DD-541)


Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 11 June 1945.

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

Online Image: 91KB; 740 x 615 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 98894

USS Yarnall (DD-541)


Underway in the Pacific, probably between 28 February 1951, when she recommissioned for Korean War service, and early 1952, when she went into overhaul. Note her peacetime large hull numbers and haze gray paint. She still has her pole mast and some 20mm guns.

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

Online Image: 88KB; 740 x 610 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 97348

USS Yarnall (DD-541)


Hauls away to starboard after "topping off" from the oiler USS Manatee (AO-58), during replenishment operations off Korea, circa August 1951. USS Leonard F. Mason (DD-852) is approaching from astern to fill her bunkers next. USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31) is refueling on the oiler's opposite side.
Photograph was released by Commander Naval Forces Far East under date of 7 August 1951.

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

Online Image: 81KB; 740 x 610 pixels

 


In addition to the images presented above, the National Archives appears to hold other views of USS Yarnall (DD-541). 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-218259
    USS Yarnall (DD-541) in San Francisco Bay, California, 17 January 1944. Photographed from a Naval Air Station Alameda aircraft.
    Port broadside aerial view. Yarnall is painted in Camouflage Measure 31, Design 2c.

  • Photo #: 80-G-262695
    USS Yarnall (DD-541) comes alongside USS Windham Bay (CVE-92) to exchange passengers and cargo, 20 February 1945. Photographed from Windham Bay's stern as Yarnall approaches.
    Port bow surface view. Yarnall is still painted in Camouflage Measure 31, Design 2c.


  • Photo #: USN 1045706
    USS Yarnall (DD-541) underway, circa 1951.
    Port bow aerial view, showing the ship as she was when first recommissioned for Korean War service.

  • Photo #: 80-G-434814
    USS Yarnall (DD-541) underway on the Formosa Patrol 1951. Photographed by Scott P. Watson. This image was received by the Naval Photographic Center on 9 November 1951.
    Starboard broadside aerial view, somewhat toward the bow, with the ship largely silhouetted by the Sun.


  • Photo #: 80-G-1078470
    USS Yarnall (DD-541) in harbor, 23 April 1954.
    Starboard bow surface view, showing the ship after she had been refitted with a tripod foremast. She still retains her World War II era air search and gunfire control radar antennas.

  • Photo #: USN 1043593
    USS Yarnall (DD-541) underway at very low speed, circa 1958. This image was received by the Naval Photographic Center on 25 August 1959.
    Port broadside surface view, somewhat toward the bow. The ship has a tripod foremast, with later type radar antennas installed.


    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."


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