USS AUGUSTA (CA-31) - ship photos

Approaching Pearl Harbor '33 to assume its assignment as flagship of the Pacific Fleet
Aerial view; #2
Aft/starboard quarter at Casco Bay - March 1943
Aft/starboard circa 1937
At anchor (believed to be in Newfoundland)
The band plays some nautical tunes
As seen from the beach in Tsingtao, China
Bowspray - the sea foaming over the ship's bow
Damage to bow believed to have been sustained while Captian Nimitz himself was steering the ship during a rendezvous with an oiler
D-Day - the Augusta off of the invasion beaches of Normandy
Drydock photos of the Augusta - stern view, floating, repair of props, scraping hull, approaching submerged floating drydock
Gen. George S. Patton aboard the Augusta for Operation Torch
Gun Turret #1 - Naples, Italy
New Paint - the Augusta receives a new coat of paint
Entering Portland, Oregon under St. John's Bridge
High speed "rooster tail" at stern
Augusta with her searchlights on (b&w 51k)
The Augusta decked out with signal flags
Sydney - Augusta on port visit to Sydney, Australia in 1934
At Shanghai, China photo #2
Postcard of Augusta passing under the Brooklyn Bridge while departing NYC and Brooklyn Navy Yard
Photos of Pres. Truman aboard Augusta enroute to Potsdam Conference 1945

Pres. Harry Truman and Jimmy Byrnes at bow enroute to Potsdam Conference
Churchill watches the USS McDougal transport FDR back to the USS Augusta in Argentia, Newfoundland after the conclusion of Atlantic Conference (8/41) - Churchill is on HMS Prince of Wales at the time
Silhouetted photo off port quarter while underway to deliver Pres. Truman to Potsdam Conference
Photo of Augusta taken from USS Philadelphia (CL-41) as she was entering the North Sea enroute to Antwerp to deliver Truman to Potsdam Conference (7/14/45); photo #2
President Harry S. Truman (center) is piped ashore from USS Augusta (CA-31) after arrival at Antwerp, Belgium, en route to the Potsdam conference, 15 July 1945. Note midships details of this cruiser, including embarkation ladder davit, catapult and heavy side plate riveting. Men are watching from portholes in the catapult tower.
On the high seas
President Harry S. Truman goes ashore from Augusta after arrival at Antwerp, Belgium, en route to the Potsdam conference, 15 July 1945. He is followed by Secretary of State James F. Byrnes; photo #2
Returning with Truman from Potsdam (1945)
In Vladivostok Harbor in 1937 (b&w 260k), smaller photo of same (b&w 18k)
Sailors observing Augusta's high-speed wake
At anchor in Whangpoo River, China (b&w 178k), and explosions behind Augusta during Sino-Japanese War
At Bermuda September 1941 (b&w 66K)
British and American ensigns fly over the Augusta during visit by King George - 1945
Forward gun turrets (b&w 52k)
Aft guns fire
Waiting to be scrapped at Kearney, N.J. circa 1960

Many of the photos that appear on this website have been provided to us by Chuck McPartlin (macpuzl@west.net) whose father served onboard the Augusta with the Marine Detachment from 1933-38.