DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
805 KIDDER BREESE SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060
Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 78646
USS General John Pope (AP-110)
In San Francisco Bay in late 1945 or early 1946, at the end of
a Magic Carpet voyage from the western Pacific. Thousands of
homeward-bound troops are on deck.
Note that her lifeboats and Welin boat davits, which had been
removed in September 1943, have been reinstalled.
Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1974.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph
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