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Photo # 80-G-87314:  USS Ancon off Salerno, Italy, September 1943

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-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Ancon (AP-66, later AGC-4), 1942-1946 --
Distant Views


This page features views of USS Ancon (AGC-4) as seen from a distance.

For other images concerning USS Ancon, see:

  • USS Ancon (AP-66, later AGC-4), 1942-1946.


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

    Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

    Photo #: 80-G-87314

    USS Ancon (AGC-4)


    Off the Salerno beachhead on 12 September 1943 serving as operation flagship.
    Note the U.S. Navy submarine chasers (SCs) laying smokescreens to protect the larger ships.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

    Online Image: 69KB; 740 x 610 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: USA C-1189 (Color)

    Surrender of Japan, Tokyo Bay, 2 September 1945

    View of the surrender ceremonies, looking forward from USS Missouri's superstructure, as Admiral Conrad E.L. Helfrich signs the Instrument of Surrender on behalf of The Netherlands. General of the Army Douglas MacArthur is standing beside him.

    Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

    Online Image: 110KB; 740 x 610 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the Nati

     
    Photo #: USA C-4626 (Color)

    Surrender of Japan, Tokyo Bay, 2 September 1945

    Japanese Foreign Ministry representatives Katsuo Okazaki and Toshikazu Kase, and Lieutenant General Richard K. Sutherland, U.S. Army, correcting an error on the Japanese copy of the Instrument of Surrender, at the conclusion of the surrender ceremonies, 2 September 1945.
    Photographed looking forward from USS Missouri's superstructure.
    Note the relaxed stance of most of those around the surrender table.
    The larger ship in the right distance is USS Ancon (AGC-4).

    Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

    Online Image: 91KB; 740 x 605 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     
    Photo #: 80-G-472630

    Surrender of Japan, Tokyo Bay, 2 September 1945


    U.S. Navy carrier planes fly in formation over USS Missouri (BB-63) during the surrender ceremonies, 2 September 1945.
    Photographed by Lieutenant Barrett Gallagher, USNR, from atop Missouri's forward 16-inch gun turret.
    Aircraft types include F4U, TBM and SB2C. Ship in the right distance is USS Ancon (AGC-4).

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

    Online Image: 66KB; 620 x 660 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

     

    Note: The following page of our presentation on the Formal Surrender of Japan features additional distant views of USS Ancon (AGC-4) anchored off the starboard bow of USS Missouri (BB-63). Ancon is not identified in any of the relevant photo captions, but is the only large ship visible in that position:

  • -- Scenes on USS Missouri before the Ceremonies.


    For other images concerning USS Ancon, see:

  • USS Ancon (AP-66, later AGC-4), 1942-1946.


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


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