Camouflage Measure 33, Design 6D

Drawing prepared by the Bureau of Ships for a camouflage scheme intended for light cruisers of the CL 55 (Cleveland) class. Ships known to have worn this scheme included USS Birmingham? (CL 62) and USS? Vicksburg? (CL 86). This plan, showing the ship's starboard side, superstructure ends and exposed decks, is dated 19 January 1944, and was approved by Captain Logan McKee, USN.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Photo #80-G-105496

Camouflage Measure 33, Design 6D

Drawing prepared by the Bureau of Ships for a camouflage scheme intended for light cruisers of the CL 55 (Cleveland) class. Ships known to have worn this scheme included USS Birmingham? (CL 62) and USS? Vicksburg? (CL 86). This plan, showing the ship's port side, is dated 19 January 1944, and was approved by Captain Logan McKee, USN

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Photo #80-G-105496

Starboard quarter view, date and location unknown.

U.S. Navy Photo.

Starboard side view, off the Norfolk Naval Shipyard, 16 Jul 1944.

U.S. Navy photo #8158(44)

USS Vicksburg (CL 86), starboard side view, 4 October 1944, location unknown.

NARA Photo #80-G-281814

USS Vicksburg (CL 86) Off the U.S. East Coast, 17 October 1944. Photographed by from a blimp of squadron ZP-12, based at Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey. The ship is painted in Camouflage Measure 33, Design 6d.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center #NH 98331.

Quad 40mm mount.

Deck scene activity and combat activity shot aboard USS Vicksburg from March to May 1945 while operating with TG38.1/58.1. Camera work by Ray Rabreau and Walt Lansky. Used courtesy of Frank Romano and Jeffrey Herne.

Vicksburg scorecard.

Deck scene activity and combat activity shot aboard USS Vicksburg from March to May 1945 while operating with TG38.1/58.1. Camera work by Ray Rabreau and Walt Lansky. Used courtesy of Frank Romano and Jeffrey Herne.

Splash from downed Kamikaze.

Deck scene activity and combat activity shot aboard USS Vicksburg from March to May 1945 while operating with TG38.1/58.1. Camera work by Ray Rabreau and Walt Lansky. Used courtesy of Frank Romano and Jeffrey Herne.

OS2U Kingfisher flipped during recovery.

Deck scene activity and combat activity shot aboard USS Vicksburg from March to May 1945 while operating with TG38.1/58.1. Camera work by Ray Rabreau and Walt Lansky. Used courtesy of Frank Romano and Jeffrey Herne.

Utility boat at site of flipped OS2U Kingfisher.

Deck scene activity and combat activity shot aboard USS Vicksburg from March to May 1945 while operating with TG38.1/58.1. Camera work by Ray Rabreau and Walt Lansky. Used courtesy of Frank Romano and Jeffrey Herne.

The damaged OS2U Kingfisher is brought aboard.

Deck scene activity and combat activity shot aboard USS Vicksburg from March to May 1945 while operating with TG38.1/58.1. Camera work by Ray Rabreau and Walt Lansky. Used courtesy of Frank Romano and Jeffrey Herne.

Ships searchlights at night.

Deck scene activity and combat activity shot aboard USS Vicksburg from March to May 1945 while operating with TG38.1/58.1. Camera work by Ray Rabreau and Walt Lansky. Used courtesy of Frank Romano and Jeffrey Herne.

Kamikaze hit overhead.

Deck scene activity and combat activity shot aboard USS Vicksburg from March to May 1945 while operating with TG38.1/58.1. Camera work by Ray Rabreau and Walt Lansky. Used courtesy of Frank Romano and Jeffrey Herne.

View from the Main Battery Director..

Deck scene activity and combat activity shot aboard USS Vicksburg from March to May 1945 while operating with TG38.1/58.1. Camera work by Ray Rabreau and Walt Lansky. Used courtesy of Frank Romano and Jeffrey Herne.

Kamikaze hit overhead.

Deck scene activity and combat activity shot aboard USS Vicksburg from March to May 1945 while operating with TG38.1/58.1. Camera work by Ray Rabreau and Walt Lansky. Used courtesy of Frank Romano and Jeffrey Herne.

Japanese "Kamikaze" aircraft Burning after it was hit by gunfire while attempting to crash into USS Vicksburg (CL 86) off Okinawa, 14 May 1945. Photographed from Vicksburg's forward superstructure, with the ship's foremast yardarm in the foreground. Note weather reporting instrument on the yardarm, and the antenna for an SK-1 air search radar partially visible at right.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives #80-G-490019.

Heading in...

Deck scene activity and combat activity shot aboard USS Vicksburg from March to May 1945 while operating with TG38.1/58.1. Camera work by Ray Rabreau and Walt Lansky. Used courtesy of Frank Romano and Jeffrey Herne.

Splash one Kamikaze.

Deck scene activity and combat activity shot aboard USS Vicksburg from March to May 1945 while operating with TG38.1/58.1. Camera work by Ray Rabreau and Walt Lansky. Used courtesy of Frank Romano and Jeffrey Herne.

USS Vicksburg (CL 86) Arrives off San Francisco, California, soon after the end of World War II, probably in October 1945. She is flying a long "homeward bound" pennant from her mainmast.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph #NH 66437.