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.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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