USS Topeka (CL 67) Launching, at the Bethlehem Steel Company shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, 19 August 1944.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives #80-G-426885.

USS Topeka (CL 67) Launching, at the Bethlehem Steel Company shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, 19 August 1944. Courtesy of the Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Kansas, 1967.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 42046.

USS Topeka (CL 67) Launching, at the Bethlehem Steel Company shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, 19 August 1944. Courtesy of the Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Kansas, 1967.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 42047.

USS Topeka (CL 67) Commissioning ceremonies, at the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, 23 December 1944. Rear Admiral Felix Gygax is speaking.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives #80-G-299263.

USS Topeka (CL 67) Underway, circa early 1945.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph

USS Topeka (CL 67) Underway at sea, March 1945. She is painted in Camouflage Measure 32 or 33, Design 24d.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives #80-G-313910.

USS Topeka (CL 67) In Manila Bay, Philippine Islands, July 1946. A Baltimore class heavy cruiser is in the background.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the Naval Historical Center #NH 98231.

Topeka undergoing inclining experiment at New York Naval Shipyard, 9 April 1960.

Photo #BSD-8053

Topeka undergoing inclining experiment at New York Naval Shipyard, 9 April 1960. Note the large weights lining the lifelines used for the experiment.

Photo #BSD-8051

Topeka undergoing inclining experiment at New York Naval Shipyard, 9 April 1960.

Photo #BSD-8046

USS Topeka (CLG 8) At sea, circa the early 1960s.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the Naval Historical Center #NH 98232.

USS Topeka (CLG 8) Fires a "Terrier" guided-missile on 18 November 1961, during weapons demonstrations for the Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral George W. Anderson. Photographed from on board USS Kitty Hawk (CVA 63). Planes preparing for launch on the carrier's flight deck are a F8U "Crusader" jet fighter, at left, and an AD-6 "Skyraider" attack plane (Bureau # 137588) of VA-115, NH-504, in the lower center. Photo updated with HD version by Bob Canchola.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph #KN-3632.

USS Topeka (CLG 8) Underway on 9 July 1964. Photographed by Bradford.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the Naval Historical Center #NH 98233.

USS Topeka (CLG 8) Steaming in the South China Sea, 6 September 1964. Photographed by PH2 R.D. Fennell.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the Naval Historical Center #NH 98234.

USS Topeka (CLG 8) Fires her forward turret's 6"/47 guns at the Viet Cong, while steaming slowly in the South China Sea on an in-shore fire support mission, April 1966.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph #K-31264.

Secretary of the Navy Paul R. Ignatius (center) on board USS Topeka (CLG 8) to observe shipboard and fleet operations, 1968. With him are Captain G.G. Halvorson, Topeka's Commanding Officer (left), and Rear Admiral V.P. Healey, Commander, Cruiser-Destroyer Flotilla SIX (right). This photograph was received on 22 July 1968.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command.

USS Topeka (CLG 8) During Sixth Fleet exercises in the Mediterranean Sea, 1968, seen from the bridge of USS Bang (SS 385). This photograph was received on 6 November 1968.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the Naval Historical Center #NH 98235.

USS Topeka (CLG 8) in mothballs at the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 29 November 1969. I was a Midshipman at the U.S. Naval Academy at the time, and we were there for the Army-Navy game that day (Navy lost that year). We had a little time before our formation, so I was able to get some photos at the basin located just inside the Main Gate at the Navy Yard.