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Photo #: NH 105659

Wrecks in Buckner Bay, Okinawa, November 1945


Photographed about a month after Typhoon Louise ravaged that port in October 1945.
The vessel in the center of the photograph is USS YP-520, originally the tuna clipper Conte Grande. To the right is USS Cinnabar (IX-163), a concrete-hulled stores issue barge. Above Cinnabar is the after portion of USS LST-826, and in the distance beyond YP-520 are YF-606 (on the left) and YF-626.

Collection of Dr. Richard Raymond Gratton (1915-1990), donated by his daughter, Barbara Gratton Stillwater, 2008.

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Image posted 26 May 2008