USS Fletcher Places Photos
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Children's day in Yokosuka, Japan in 1952. Photo courtesy of Bob McCurley.
Yokosuka, Japan

A typical tropical sunset
Tropical sunset

South China Sea, 1968
South China Sea

At Midway Island in February 1968. USS Epperson DD-719 is on the opposite side of the fuel pier.
Midway

Subic Bay sunset. Photo courtesy of David Lesher
Subic Bay

A Midway Island gooney bird. Graceful in the air, clumsy on the ground Midway

Taken moments before Fletcher departed Pearl Harbor on her final cruise. November 22, 1968
Pearl Harbor

A morning rain shower on the infamous Bataan Peninsula, August1968
Bataan Peninsula

Aircraft bombing Caballo Island in Manila Bay, February 1945. Photo courtesy of William Richardson.
Caballo Island 1945

Paratrooper drop on Corregidor, February 16, 1945. Photo courtesy of William Richardson.
Corregidor 1945

Chinese junk in Hong Kong, March 21, 1969
Hong Kong

The beautiful Philippines. This shot was taken in San Bernardino Strait in 1968. Notice the inter-island steamer on the left.
Philippines

Civilians touring the Pearl Harbor Naval Base, May 1969. In the background are the USS Haverfield DER-393 and the USS Finch DER-328.
Pearl Harbor Tourists

Nha Trang, South Vietnam, 1968
Nha Trang

Diamond Head as seen from the Honolulu airport
Diamond Head

San Bernardino Strait, Philippines, August 1968
San Bernardino Strait

River patrol boat, Nha Trang, South Vietnam, 1968
Nha Trang

A Soviet trawler shadowing the 7th Fleet in Tonkin Gulf near north Vietnam in 1968. In this strange war this enemy was allowed to operate with impunity.
Tonkin Gulf

Open house alongside USS Nicholas in Brisbane, Australia. April 1967
Brisbane

Bravo Pier in Pearl Harbor, Fletcher's home
Bravo Pier

Hawaii, Fletcher's Home
Hawaii

A peaceful sunset and an unidentified DD near Vietnam in 1969.
Sunset

A rainbow over Pearl Harbor. November 25, 1966
Pearl Harbor

Australian visitors in Brisbane, April 1967. Fletcher is tied up outboard of sister ship USS Nicholas DD-449.
Brisbane

Market Time patrol near the South Vietnamese coast, 1969
South Vietnam

An F8 crusader dumping fuel before landing on a carrier in Tonkin Gulf, April 1969.
Tonkin Gulf

Hong Kong, 1969
Hong Kong

Australian sailors on the pier in Subic Bay in 1968. They are from the destroyer HMAS Hobart D-39
Subic Bay

Two Yabuta class river patrol boats near Nha Trang, South Vietnam
South Vietnam

Typical Vietnamese sunset
Vietnam sunset

Kaohsiung Harbor, Taiwan 1969
Kaohsiung Taiwan

Hong Kong 1968
Hong Kong

Hong Kong 1968
Hong Kong

Native boats in Manila Bay, March 28, 1945. Photo courtesy of William Richardson
Manila Bay

E2C Hawkeye on final approach to a carrier. Fletcher is on plane guard duty. 1968
Tonkin Gulf

San Bernardino Strait, Philippines, August1968
San Bernardino Strait

Hong Kong as viewed from an apartment building in 1969
Hong Kong

Kobe, Japan. April 1969. One of Fletcher's last ports of call before decommissioning.
Kobe Japan

West Lock, Pearl Harbor. LST sunk in ammo loading accident in WWII served as a reminder to crews in the 1960s what can happen.
West Lock

Lt. Sinclair in war torn Manila in 1945. Photo courtesy of Marlon Piper
Manila 1945

Rusty Nationalist Chinese tanker in Kaohsiung harbor, 1969.
Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Plane guarding the USS Ticonderoga CVA-14 near Vietnam, July 11, 1968
Plane guard

Official U.S. Navy photo. Aerial view of Bravo Pier, Pearl Harbor taken on October 8, 1960. This was Fletcher's home although she was not in port when this photo was taken. Destroyers visible are Epperson, Nicholas, Renshaw, Philip, Taylor, O'Bannon, Jenkins, Walker, Mullany, Stoddard and others plus minelayers and DE's. Pearl Harbor

South China Sea sunset between the Philippines and Vietnam, 1968
Tropical Sunset

Hawaii - WWII

Diamond Head as seen from the east
Diamond Head

South China Sea sunset. Photo courtesy of David Lesher
South China Sea

Singapore, April 1968
Singapore

Mary Soo's girls, Hong Kong, 1968
Hong Kong

Sailors going ashore for liberty in Hilo, Hawaii in 1967
Hilo, Hawaii

Bollard on Bravo Pier with the gedunk stand visible in the background, 1967
Pearl Harbor

Mauna Kea Crater on the Big Island, Hawaii. September 1967
Volcano National Park

A typical tropical sunset with a carrier in the distance
Tropical sunset

A jet aircraft has just fired a rocket at a target on the beach. December 27,1966
South Vietnam

August 16, 1968. San Bernardino Strait, Philippines. Four destroyers of DesRon 25 enroute from Subic Bay to Hawaii via Guam and Midway. Visible right to left is USS Cochrane DDG-21 and USS Epperson DD-719. Photo taken from USS Fletcher DD-445. Not visible is USS Nicholas DD-449.
San Bernardino Strait

Kaohsiung, Taiwan in March 1969
Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Tne north side of the entrance to Kaohsiung as seen from insde the harbor. March 11, 1969 Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Upon arrival in Hong Kong it was customary for merchants to contract with boat owners to toss business cards onto the decks of arriving navy ships. This group is tossing cards at the sailors on the fantail. Hong Kong, March 21, 1969
Hong Kong

Subic Bay Naval Base, Philippines. 1969
Subic Bay

Mountains north of the entrance to Subic Bay, Philippines. April 1967
Near Subic Bay