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	118k 102k	Lyman Knute Swenson was born in Pleasant Grove, Iowa, on 23 October 1892. He graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1916 and served in surface combatants and submarines, including command of USS H-6 (SS-149) in 1919. Later, he commanded USS Isabel (PY-10) and Destroyer Division 64. In 1941, he was appointed captain of the new cruiser USS Juneau (CL-52), placing her in commission in February 1942. Captain Swenson was killed in action when Juneau was torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine on 13 November 1942, just after participating in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal. First photo #: 80-G-11251. Captain Lyman K. Swenson, USN, ashore at Fox Harbor, Newfoundland, 14 June 1942, while he was in command of USS Juneau (CL-52). Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.		Bill Gonyo
	22k	Undated, location unknown.		-
	85k	Undated, location unknown.		Tom Crew
	85k	Undated, location unknown.		Richard Miller BMCS USNR RET.
	181k	Undated, location unknown.		Richard Miller BMCS USNR RET.
	579k	Off the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, 22 July 1944. She is painted in camouflage Measure 32, Design 9D. National Archives photo 19-N-68548.		Fred Weiss / Robert Hurst
	155k	Battling heavy seas in the Pacific, 1945. Photographed from Brush (DD-745). Courtesy Robert Baumbrucker, Naval History & Heritage Command photo NH 89376.		Ed Zajkowski
	122k	USS Swenson in heavy swells alongside USS Wasp (CV-18), January 1945. National Archives photo 80-G-301572.		John Chiquoine
	124k	As above. National Archives photo 80-G-301573.		John Chiquoine
	125k	USS Lyman K. Swenson and USS Schroeder (DD-501) maneuvering within the TG58.1 formation, as seen from USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24). Taken in February 1945 during mainland Japan raids and Iwo Jima support.		John Chiquoine and Dave Schroeder
	93k	Lyman K. Swenson underway in TG38.1, Spring or Summer 1945. Photo by T McCann, DD573.		Dave Schroeder/John Chiquoine
	105k	USS Lyman K. Swenson (DD-729) Moored at San Diego, California, with two other destroyers, circa 1945-46. Middle ship is USS De Haven (DD-727). Courtesy of John Hummel, 1979. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Fred Weiss
	100k	Navy Photo 28-46, stern view of USS Lyman K. Swenson (DD 729) moored at the South end of Mare Island on 3 Jan 1946.		Darryl Baker
	70k	Navy Photo 30-46, broadside view of USS Lyman K. Swenson (DD 729) off Mare Island on 3 Jan 1946. She was in overhaul at the yard from 31 Oct 1945 to 10 Jan 1946.		Darryl Baker
	98k	Navy Photo 32-46, bow on view of USS Lyman K. Swenson (DD 729) moored at the South end of Mare Island on 3 Jan 1946.		Darryl Baker
	90k	USS Lyman K. Swenson (DD-729) at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 5 January 1946. This view looks forward from alongside the ship's port side, showing her 26-foot motor whaleboat and 20mm gun platform by her after smokestack. Note floater nets (with attached water casks) and boxed supplies on deck just inboard from the whaleboat. Also empty racks for ready-service 40mm ammunition. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.		Fred Weiss
	152k	USS Lyman K. Swenson (DD-729) at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 5 January 1946. This view looks aft from alongside the ship's port bow, showing her anchoring gear, forward 5"/38 twin gun mounts and pilothouse. Note canted angle of the Mk.12/22 radar antennas atop her Mk.37 gun director. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.		Fred Weiss/Darryl Baker
	45k	Motor whale boat of the USS Lyman K. Swenson (DD 729) is shown after its overhaul at the Mare Island boat shop on 27 Oct 1947.		Darryl Baker
	91k	Navy Photo 2253-47, broadside view of USS Lyman K. Swenson (DD 729) off Mare Island on 7 Nov 1947. She was in overhaul at the yard from 10 Sep to 21 Nov 1947.		Darryl Baker
	80k	Navy Photo 2255-47, bow on view of USS Lyman K. Swenson (DD 729) off Mare Island on 7 Nov 1947.		Darryl Baker
	91k	Navy Photo 2256-47, stern view of USS Lyman K. Swenson (DD 729) off Mare Island on 7 Nov 1947.		Darryl Baker
	98k	Mare Island Naval Shipyard, November 1947.		Pieter Bakels
	93k	Mare Island Naval Shipyard, November 14 1947.		Pieter Bakels
	86k	Mare Island Naval Shipyard, November 14 1947.		Pieter Bakels
	84k	Circa July-August 1948, Destroyer Division 91 (L to R) Mansfield (DD-728) (flag ship); Collett (DD-730); DeHaven (DD-727) and Lyman K. Swenson (DD-729), at buoy in San Diego harbor.		Richard A. Bowman QM2
	96k	USS Platte (AO-24) refuels USS Valley Forge (CV-45) and USS Lyman K. Swenson (DD-729), while they were enroute from Pearl Harbor to San Diego during Operation "Miki", November 1949. Photographed by Ted Huggins from Valley Forge's flight deck as she dropped back after taking on oil. Note retractable radio antennas mounted alongside the flight deck. Courtesy of Ted Huggins, 1970. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Fred Weiss
	126k	USS Platte (AO-24) refuels USS Valley Forge (CV-45) and USS Lyman K. Swenson (DD-729), while they were enroute from Pearl Harbor to San Diego during Operation "Miki", November 1949. Photographed by Ted Huggins. Courtesy of Ted Huggins, 1970. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.		Fred Weiss
	122k	Inchon Operation, September 1950, a Chaplain reads the Last Rites service as Lieutenant (Junior Grade) David H. Swenson is buried at sea from USS Toledo (CA-133), off Inchon, Korea. He had been killed by North Korean artillery while his ship, USS Lyman K. Swenson (DD-729) was bombarding enemy positions on Wolmi-do island, Inchon, on 13 September 1950. Lyman K. Swenson is in the background, with her crew at quarters on deck. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the "All Hands" collection at the Naval Historical Center.		Fred Weiss
	105k	Inchon Invasion, September 1950 Wolmi-Do island under bombardment on 13 September 1950, two days before the landings at Inchon. Photographed from USS Lyman K. Swenson (DD-729), one of whose 40mm gun mounts is in the foreground. Sowolmi-Do island, connected to Wolmi-Do by a causeway, is at the right, with Inchon beyond. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.		Fred Weiss
	123k	Off Korea in November 1951. From the N.A. "Stretch" Brown collection.		Carol Edgemon Hipperson, author of Radioman: An Eyewitness Account of Pearl Harbor & World War II in the Pacific
	51k	From the January 1952 ALL HANDS magazine.		Stanley Svec
	202k	Men of Destroyer Division 91 crowd the foc'sle and superstructure of their ships in Sasebo, Japan, to receive their Navy Unit Commendations. During the presentation on the Mansfield, a crane crew in the background continues its task of installing new gun barrels on the De Haven. Streaks of red lead on the Collett and the Swenson in the foreground show the work that has occupied all the crews while in port. By coincidence the famed 'Sitting Duck' destroyers are berthed in their numerical order: USS De Haven (DD-727), Mansfield (DD-728), Lyman K. Swenson (DD-729), and Collett (DD-730)." Photograph and caption released by Commander Naval Forces, Far East, under date of 18 December 1951. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the "All Hands" collection at the Naval Historical Center.		Joe Radigan
	32k	DesRon 9 in Long Beach; USS Collett (DD-730), USS Lyman K. Swenson (DD-729), USS Mansfield (DD-728) and USS De Haven (DD-727).		Richard Miller BMCS USNR (Ret.)
	122k	Photo taken by Bill Burch in 1955 from the USS Essex CVA9 near Corrigidor (in background).		Richard Miller BMCS USNR RET./Gregg Smoyer
	257k	The crew of the USS Lyman K. Swenson (DD 729) is mustered for the presentation of the Navy "E" at Mare Island on 23 August 1960. The ship is in Mare Island's dry dock #2 while undergoing her FRAM II conversion. Nice new deck house. From the files of the Vallejo Naval & Historical Museum.		Darryl Baker
	117k	RADM L. V. Honsinger, Mare Island Shipyard Commander presents the Navy "E" award to CDR W. C. Cook, Commanding Officer of USS Lyman K. Swenson (DD 729) on 23 August 1960 at Mare Island. From the files of the Vallejo Naval & Historical Museum.		Darryl Baker
	144k	Off Mare Island January 27 1961, photo NPC 1052991.		Ed Zajkowski
	112k	Off Mare Island January 27 1961.		Tracy White
	716k	Off Mare Island January 27 1961. Naval History & Heritage Command photo NH 96966		Robert Hurst
	712k	Off Mare Island January 27 1961. Naval History & Heritage Command photo NH 96967		Robert Hurst
	98k	USS Bryce Canyon (AD-36) at Terminal Island, Long Beach, California, circa 1962. Alongside are the destroyers USS Lyman K. Swenson (DD-729), USS Collett (DD-730), USS Blue (DD-744), and USS Shelton (DD-790). USS Colahan (DD-658) is moored on the other side of the pier.		Robert Hurst/Rich Angelini
	249k	This photo of the destroyer USS Lyman K. Swenson was taken in 1963, during a rendezvous with the light-fleet carrier, HMAS Melbourne, whilst engage in a highline transfer. As I recall this was following a busy two weeks of SEATO exercises in the South China Sea. The two signs displayed by the ship’s company of USS Swenson are a play on the words of two popular songs of the time – "If I knew you were coming I’d have baked a cake" and "Tie me kangaroo down sport" - everybody on ‘Melbourne’ was caught by surprise and thought the gesture was highly amusing and enjoyed the humour behind it very much; all the more as someone had taken the time and trouble to paint the signs and display them. Certainly it was an indication of the friendly relation between our two navies; we’re so lucky to have times like these with good thing to remember.		Kim Dunstan, RAN
	215k	USS Lyman K. Swenson (DD-729) refueling from USS Princeton (LPH-5)'s 3rd Division's Fuel Pocket, January-February 1963.		Ron Reeves
	116k	USS Lyman K. Swenson (DD-729) firing a 6-gun salvo at shore targets during the Vietnam War between November 1968 and July 1969. Photo USN.		Robert Hurst
Three views of USS Lyman K. Swenson (DD-729) Underway off Oahu, Hawaii, 16 March 1970. Photographed by PH1 Dixon M. Dreiher & PHC T.J. Taylor (NH 96969). Naval History & Heritage Command photos NH 96968, 96969 and 96970.				Curtis Helmer / Robert Hurst
	613k	USS Lyman K. Swenson (DD-729) Underway off Oahu, Hawaii, 16 March 1970. Underway off Oahu, Hawaii, 16 March 1970. Photographed by PH1 Dixon M. Dreher. Naval History & Heritage Command photo NH 96968.		Curtis Helmer
	702k	Underway in the Pacific Ocean, 16 March 1970. Photographed by PHC T.J. Taylor. Naval History & Heritage Command photo NH 96969		Robert Hurst
	126k	USS Lyman K. Swenson (DD-729) at Hong Kong during 1970.		Fred Weiss
	54k	Ship's patch.		Mike Smolinski
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