Photos Taken in San Diego, California

47 items in this album on 3 pages.


US Marine Corps R4D Skytrains and a rare Douglas R3D at Navy Auxiliary Air Station at Camp Kearny, California (now Miramar), 1943. Note the R3D doorway modified for Marine paratroopers, only 4 such planes existed	USS S-38 at San Diego, California, United States, Apr 1943; note attack transport USS Harris in left background	USS S-38 at San Diego, California, United States, Apr 1943; note tug boat YMT-3 in background	USS S-41, San Diego, California, United States, Apr 1943

US Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox inspecting WAVES officers Ensign Mary Cave (center of photograph), Ensign Margaret Campbell (speaking to Knox), and Ensign Bertha Shoves (right of photograph), accompanied by station commanding officer Captain Henry Gearing, Naval Training Station, San Diego, California, United States, Jun 1943	US Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox speaking to patients at US Naval Hospital in San Diego, California, United States, Jun 1943; some of the patients had been wounded in combat at Guadalcanal	Escort Carrier USS Barnes departing San Diego, California bound for Brisbane, Australia with a deck load of P-38 Lightning and P-47 Thunderbolt fighter planes, July 1 1943.	General Clayton Vogel cutting a cake for the USMC birthday celebration, San Diego, California, United States, 10 Nov 1943

Group portrait of 246th Platoon of Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, California, United States, 1944	LCVP landing craft from Amphibious Transport Ship USS Hunter Liggett (background) during amphibious training near San Diego, California, United States, circa 1944. Note the LCVP’s unusual raised coxswain podium at the stern	USS Hancock departing San Diego, California, United States, 23 Aug 1944.	Carrier Ticonderoga off San Diego, California, United States, 16 Sep 1944; note extra aircraft loaded on deck destined for Hawaii, and camouflage pattern Measure 33 Design 10a. Photo 1 of 2.

Carrier Ticonderoga off San Diego, California, United States, 16 Sep 1944; note extra aircraft loaded on deck destined for Hawaii, and camouflage pattern Measure 33 Design 10a. Photo 2 of 2.	Nose turret of a United States Navy PB4Y-2 Privateer at Camp Kearny (Miramar), San Diego, California, United States, Dec 1944.	USS Bennington steaming out of San Diego, California en route Pearl Harbor, Hawaii with a deck load of aircraft, 1 Jan 1945.	General Clifton Cates and actress Maureen O'Hara, Camp Pendleton, California, United States, Nov 1945

USS Shangri-La at Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, California, United States, Dec 1945	USS Shangri-La at Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, California, United States, 1947	USS Ticonderoga off Point Loma, San Diego, California, United States, mid-1957	USS Bennington in her final configuration leaving San Diego, California in the late 1950s. Note the enclosed hurricane bow, the absence of most anti-aircraft guns, and the angled flight deck.