CREW PHOTOS
Photo of the ship's officers circa 1934 (Capt. Nimitz commanding)
Group photos of entire crew: 5/16/39
Admiral Harry E. Yarnell (CinCAF)
Baseball champs of Asiatic Fleet
Funeral ceremony
Gun drill (b&w 90k)
Two marines (the "Battlers" - Staflet and Grua - 1934) exhibit their new shave-cuts
Captain Nimitz on deck of the Augusta
Photo of members of the Marine detachment manning an anti-aircraft gun
A friendly game of acey-deucy
John Brown broadcasts news of battle to crew during Operation Overlord (Normandy Invasion)
Crew members at a dance in what appears to be consulate in the Orient (b&w 118k)
Augusta Dance - Shanghai, China pre-WWII
Chowline - 11/30/42
Adm. Lyal A. Davidson & his son Willaim just prior to Operation Dragoon (1944)
Photo of Augusta's print shop 1942 (b&w 129k)
Lt.(jg) Brewster Phillips II and his young daughter Vicki
Bill & Frank (c. 1944)
Augusta sailors visiting with Russian sailors in Vladivostok, and playing the game of fishing for beer
Marine contingent sitting for their portrait December 1937 (b&w 95k)
Boxing was a popular sport on the Augusta (b&w 125k)
Boxing match (1945)
Basketball team (b&w 220k)
Ceremony on deck of sailors, marine & officers (b&w 128k)
1st Lt. Lewis B. ("Chesty") Puller receives a report aboard the Augusta in Shanghai, April 1935 (b&w 248k)
Sailors pose with visiting "aviator"
Siamese sailors exchange their hats with the Augusta's Marines
Truman leaves the Augusta (1945)
Harold Swanson served aboard the Augusta 1941-45 detailed to the V Division. Following the launching of the ship's observation planes during Operation Torch the Augusta came under bombardment from Vichy French warships, at which time Swanson and other crew members assisted in jettisoning Gen. George Patton's Higgins boat so the Augusta's aft battery could return fire.
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