This page features views of the command and intelligence spaces in USS Ancon (AGC-4).
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Photo #: 80-G-215083 USS Ancon (AGC-4) Scene in the Joint Operations Room on 3 July 1943 shortly before the invasion of Sicily. Command personnel are manning the stations on the raised platform at the left. The two horizontal plots may be the air plot table (foreground) and local plot table (background). The task force dispostion status board is on a bulkhead at the left rear. A radio transmitting keyboard is in use in the foreground. Note the extensive use of sound powered phones. Chalked on the vertical status board at right is the statement "Again we have been asked to do the impossible. Let's do it as usual." Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 91KB; 740 x 615 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: 80-G-215084 USS Ancon (AGC-4) Scene in the Joint Operations Room on 3 July 1943 shortly before the invasion of Sicily. Command personnel are manning the stations on the raised platform. The horizontal plot in the foreground may be the air plot table. Note the radar repeater at the left and the extensive use of sound powered phones. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 80KB; 740 x 590 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: 80-G-215080 USS Ancon (AGC-4) Status board in the Joint Operations Room on 3 July 1943. This board shows the disposition of Task Force 85 ships shortly before the invasion of Sicily. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 106KB; 740 x 615 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: 80-G-215068 USS Ancon (AGC-4) Scene in a surface plotting area, probably the Navy Operations Room adjacent to or part of the Joint Operations Room, on 3 July 1943 shortly before the invasion of Sicily. Note plotting crew with charts on multiple tables, sound powered phones, communications gear in cabinets at left, speaking tubes on bulkhead at right, and aircraft status board on bulkhead at rear. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 90KB; 740 x 615 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Photo #: NH 68942 USS Ancon (AGC-4) Photo interpreters examining surveillance photographs on 2 July 1943 shortly before the Sicily landings. Amphibious Force Flagships (AGC) had a photo interpretation office (where this photograph was probably taken) and spaces for processing, printing, enlarging, copying, finishing, and filing aerial photography. Courtesy of Col. Robert L. Clifford, USA (Ret.), 1969. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 89KB; 740 x 615 pixels |
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For other images concerning USS Ancon, see:
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Page made 28 March 2004