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Photo # USN 1142155:  USS Oklahoma City firing her six-inch guns off Vietnam, June 1966

Online Library of Selected Images:
-- U.S. NAVY SHIPS --

USS Oklahoma City (CLG-5, later CG-5), 1960-1999
-- Actions, Activities and Miscellaneous Views, 1964-1966


This page features nearly all the views we have of USS Oklahoma City's activities in 1964-1966.

For later images of this ship's activities, see:

  • USS Oklahoma City (CLG-5, later CG-5) -- Actions, Activities and Miscellaneous Views, 1967 and Later.

    For other contemporary views of this ship, see:

  • USS Oklahoma City (CLG-5, later CG-5), 1944-1999 -- Post 1963 views.


    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 #: NH 98673

    USS Columbus (CG-12)
    , at left, and
    USS Oklahoma City (CLG-5)

    Moored to Buoys 21, 22 & 23, at San Diego, California, 14 March 1964.
    Photographed by PH2 R.D. Fennell, USN.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 89KB; 740 x 605 pixels

     
    Photo #: NH 98674

    USS Oklahoma City (CLG-5)


    is moved alongside USS Providence (CLG-6) at Yokosuka Naval Station, Japan, 7 July 1964. Vice Admiral Roy L. Johnson, Commander Seventh Fleet, and his flag staff were moving from Providence to Oklahoma City at the conclusion of the former's first tour as fleet flagship.
    Photographed by PHAN R.L. White, USN.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 134KB; 740 x 605 pixels

     
    Photo #: USN 1104112

    Yokosuka Naval Station, Japan


    Harbor tugs move USS Oklahoma City (CLG-5) alongside USS Providence (CLG-6) for change of Seventh Fleet flagship, 7 July 1964. Commander Seventh Fleet, Vice Admiral Roy L. Johnson, transferred his flag and staff from Providence to Oklahoma City at the conclusion of the former's first tour as Fleet flagship.
    Note LCU-637 and several harbor tugs on the wharf, at left; large dockyard cranes; tunnels in the cliff in the background; and the large number of automobiles on board Oklahoma City.

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

    Online Image: 114KB; 740 x 610 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system as Photo # 428-N-1104112.

     
    Photo #: NH 98675

    USS Oklahoma City (CLG-5)


    Night time photograph of the Seventh Fleet Flagship moored at HMS Tamar, the British Naval Base in Hong Kong, during a goodwill port visit, circa the 1960s.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 61KB; 740 x 520 pixels

     
    Photo #: USA CC-26865

    Vice Admiral Roy L. Johnson, USN
    ,
    Commander, U.S. Seventh Fleet

    Leaves his flagship, USS Oklahoma City (CLG-5), for an official visit with Maxwell D. Taylor, U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Vietnam, at Saigon, Republic of Vietnam, July 1964.
    VAdm. Johnson, who assumed command of the Seventh Fleet at Yokohama, Japan, in June, had arrived at Saigon for a three-day goodwill visit on 21 July 1964.

    Official U.S. Army Photograph.

    Online Image: 114KB; 740 x 615 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.
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    Though reproductions of this photo from the Naval Historical Center's collections are available in black & white only, those from the National Archives should be available in color.

     
    Photo #: USN 1142155

    USS Oklahoma City (CLG-5)


    Fires a salvo from her 6"/47 guns, during a night operation in the South China Sea off Vietnam, June 1966.
    Photographed by Chief Journalist R.D. Moeser, USN.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph.

    Online Image: 99KB; 740 x 605 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system as Photo # 428-N-1142155.

     
    Photo #: USN 1142185

    USS Oklahoma City (CLG-5)


    A crewman on the cruiser's bridge plots a surface contact, during operations in the South China Sea off Vietnam, June 1966.
    Photographed by Chief Journalist R.D. Moeser, USN.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph.

    Online Image: 130KB; 740 x 610 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system as Photo # 428-N-1142185.

     
    Photo #: USN 1142192

    USS Oklahoma City (CLG-5)


    A Signalman opens the shutters of his light to acknowledge that he is reading a signal from a distant ship, during operations in the South China Sea off Vietnam, June 1966.
    Photographed by Chief Journalist R.D. Moeser, USN.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph.

    Online Image: 111KB; 740 x 605 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system as Photo # 428-N-1142192.

     
    Photo #: NH 98678

    Vice Admiral John Hyland, USN
    ,
    Commander Seventh Fleet

    Is high lined to USS Chemung (AO-30) from his flagship, USS Oklahoma City (CLG-5), 13 July 1966.
    Photographed by PH3 James D. Hill, USN.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 127KB; 590 x 765 pixels

     
    Photo #: USN 1142200

    USS Oklahoma City (CLG-5)


    Officers exercise to keep fit, during operations in the South China Sea off Vietnam, June 1966.
    Photographed by Chief Journalist R.D. Moeser, USN.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph.

    Online Image: 104KB; 590 x 765 pixels

    Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system as Photo # 428-N-1142200.

     
    Photo #: NH 98676

    USS Oklahoma City (CLG-5)


    Receives a musical send off from the Commander Seventh Fleet Band, as she heads for the U.S. West Coast after two and a half years as Seventh Fleet flagship in the Western Pacific, 2 December 1966. She had been relieved as flagship by USS Providence (CLG-6).
    Note the banner across Oklahoma City's bridge face, reading "Bound for the Promised Land".
    Photographed by JOC Jim Falk, USN.

    Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

    Online Image: 80KB; 600 x 765 pixels

     

    For later images of this ship's activities, see:

  • USS Oklahoma City (CLG-5, later CG-5) -- Actions, Activities and Miscellaneous Views, 1967 and Later.

    For other contemporary views of this ship, see:

  • USS Oklahoma City (CLG-5, later CG-5), 1944-1999 -- Post 1963 views.


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


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