Photo #: NH 97003
USS Latimer (APA-152)
"Doors marked 'Sealed 11-10-48--Do Not Open' were found
by Boilerman First Class J.W. Roach ..., when opened aboard USS
Latimer ..., first vessel of the Norfolk Reserve Fleet
to be readied for recommissioning."
Quoted caption was released with this photo on 3 August 1950.
Latimer had decommissioned at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Virginia,
on 26 February 1947. She recommissioned on 23 September 1950,
as the active fleet was being expanded during the Korean War.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the "All Hands"
collection at the Naval Historical Center.
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