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Photo # 80-G-441050:  USS General J. C. Breckinridge is greeted by Japanese Geisha at Yokohama, 29 March 1952.

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USS General J. C. Breckinridge (AP-176, later T-AP-176), 1945-1987 -- Views taken before the mid-1950s (Part II)


This page features additional views of USS General J. C. Breckinridge (AP-176, later T-AP-176) taken prior to the mid-1950s, while she still carried her guns.

For other images concerning this ship, see:

  • USS General J. C. Breckinridge (AP-176, later T-AP-176), 1945-1987.


    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-441050

    USS General J. C. Breckinridge (AP-176)


    Is greeted by Japanese Geisha as she arrives at Yokohama Army Port with Servicemen's dependents on board, 29 March 1952.
    Photographed by AF2 Myles E. Vallejo.

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

    Online Image: 105KB; 740 x 605 pixels

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

     
    Photo #: NH 104020

    USS General J. C. Breckinridge
    (T-AP-176)

    Alongside a pier at Fort Mason, the U.S. Army's port of embarkation at San Francisco, California, circa the early 1950s. A sister transport is on her left, and one of three Military Sea Transportation Service (MSTS)-operated storeships of the Bald Eagle (T-AF-50) class is on her right. This was the normal eastern terminus of Breckinridge's trans-Pacific voyages.
    These piers still exist as part of the Fort Mason Center, a National Historic Landmark and cultural center.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph, from the Military Sealift Command collection.

    Online Image: 83KB; 740 x 510 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 104039

    USS General J. C. Breckinridge
    (T-AP-176)

    At San Francisco, California circa the early 1950s, probably just after arriving from the Western Pacific.
    An attack cargo ship (AKA) is moored to the left.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph,
    from the Military Sealift Command collection.

    Online Image: 57KB; 690 x 645 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 104021

    USS General J. C. Breckinridge
    (T-AP-176)

    Heading towards Pier 2 at Fort Mason, San Francisco, on 30 June 1954 after a voyage from Yokosuka or Yokohama, Japan.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph,
    from the Military Sealift Command collection.

    Online Image: 58KB; 650 x 660 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 78155

    USS General J. C. Breckinridge
    (T-AP-176)

    Photographed circa the early 1950s clearly showing her armament of two 5-inch guns abreast foward and two on the centerline aft.

    Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1973.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph,

    Online Image: 46KB; 740 x 470 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 104017

    USS General J. C. Breckinridge
    (T-AP-176)

    Arriving at Fort Mason, San Francisco, California in March 1955. She is still carrying her original 5-inch gun armament.
    The smoke from number 2 stack and the short white wake suggest she is going astern on the port shaft to help turn the ship towards the Fort Mason piers on the right.

    U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph,
    from the Military Sealift Command collection.

    Online Image: 45KB; 740 x 625 pixels

     


    For other images concerning this ship, see:

  • USS General J. C. Breckinridge (AP-176, later T-AP-176), 1945-1987.


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


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