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USS Tangier (AV-8) off Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA, circa August 1941. Tangier was in overhaul at Mare Island from 29 August to 16 September 1941.
US Navy photo # NH 50131, from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center |
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USS Tangier (AV-8) anchored off Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA, circa August 1941.
US National Archives photo # 19-N-25362, from the Bureau of Ships Collection now in the US National Archives. |
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USS Tangier (AV-8) anchored off Mare Island Navy Yard, Vallejo, CA, circa August 1941. Note OS2U seaplanes on deck, aft.
US National Archives photo # 19-N-25360, from the Bureau of Ships Collection now in the US National Archives. |
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USS Tangier (AV-8) at anchor, circa 1941, location unknown.
US Navy photo |
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A Japanese bomb explodes approximately 20 feet off the starboard side of USS Tangier (AV-8), forward of the bridge, during the Pearl Harbor air raid, 7 December 1941.
US Navy photo, the original photograph was in the CinC Pac report of the Pearl Harbor Attack, 15 February 1942, Volume 3, in 1990. |
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View of the west side of Ford Island during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 7 December 1941. Visible are (left to right): USS Tangier (AV-8), the capsized USS Utah (AG-16), USS Curtiss (AV-4) in the distance directly behind Utah, USS Medusa (AR-1), and the stern of USS Raleigh (CL-7), which is listing after a torpedo hit.
USAAF photo. U.S. National Park Service Pearl Harbor gallery. |
Robert Hurst |
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USS Tangier (AV-8) in berth F-10 at Ford Island, circa 7 to 9 December 1941. The capsized
USS Utah (AG-16) astern of Tangier, in berth F-11, rolled over during the attack
on 7 December after being struck by at least two or possibly three Japanese torpedos.
US National Archives photo # 80-G-32666, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives. |
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USS Tangier (AV-8) anchored at Noumea, New Caledonia, 14 April 1942. Note PBY-5 and an OS2U-2 on the seaplane deck, aft.
US Navy photo # NH 97470, from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center |
US Naval Historical Center |
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USS Tangier (AV-8) anchored at Noumea harbor, New Caledonia, 8 May 1942
US National Archives photo # 80-G-61910, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the US National Archives. |
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USS Tangier (AV-8) at anchor off San Francisco on September 2, 1942.
File name: AV 8 5301-9-42, Navy Photo, 9/2/42 |
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USS Tangier (AV-8) at anchor off San Francisco on September 2, 1942.
File name: AV 8 5302-9-42, Navy Photo, 9/2/42 |
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USS Tangier (AV-8) underway, date and location unknown.
US Navy photo |
Haze Gray & Underway |
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USS Tangier (AV-8) at anchor, circa 1943. The radar tower over the bridge and the small funnel extension were probably fitted during a refit at Oakland, California, in July to September 1942.
US National Archives photo # 19-N-40106, RG-19 LCM, a US Navy Bureau of Ships photo now in the collections of the US National Archives. |
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Aft plan view of USS Tangier (AV-8) berthed at San Francisco, 15 February 1944.
Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 1070. |
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Amidships looking forward plan view of USS Tangier (AV-8) berthed at San Francisco, 15 February 1944.
Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 1072. |
Darryl Baker |
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Bow on view of USS Tangier (AV-8) off San Francisco, 17 February 1944.
Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 1053. |
Darryl Baker |
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Stern view of USS Tangier (AV-8) off San Francisco, 17 February 1944.
Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 1055. |
Darryl Baker |
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Broadside view of USS Tangier (AV-8) off San Francisco, 17 February 1944.
Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 1056. |
Darryl Baker |
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A USS Tangier (AV-8) liberty party on Los Negros Island, Admiralties, 14 June 1944. Their ship is anchored in the right distance. Note beer drinkers in the foreground, swimmers beyond and motor launch delivering more men to the pier, where they are collecting two bottles of beer apiece as they come ashore. A PBY seaplane is moored in the left center distance.
US National Archives photo # 80-G-237133, a US Navy photo, now in the collections of the US National Archives. |
Scott at LBS Products |
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USS Tangier (AV-8) in the south Pacific area, July 1944.
US Navy photo # NH 50132, from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center |
US Naval Historical Center |
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USS Tangier (AV-8) anchored in the south Pacific area, July 1944. Note PBY patrol seaplane flying past, beyond her bow.
US Navy photo # NH 97471, from the collections of the US Naval Historical Center |
US Naval Historical Center |
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USS Currituck (AV-7) (upper), and USS Tangier (AV-8) (lower) moored at Morotai October 1944, while supporting seaplane operations in connection with the Leyte invasion. Note aircraft rescue boats tied up alongside Tangier, and OS2U float planes on both ships' seaplane decks.
US National Archives photo # 80-G-1022364, a US Navy photo now in the collections of the National Archives |
US Naval Historical Center |
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USS Tangier (AV-8) (center), and USS Coos Bay (AVP-25) (left), seen from USS Chandeleur (AV-10) as Tangier steams out of Ominato, Japan, 16 October 1945.
US National Archives photo # 80-G-266022, a US Navy photo, now in the collections of the
National Archives. |
US Naval Historical Center |
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USS Tangier (AV-8) crew members playing ball on the after deck while John L Pippin looks on, date and location unknown. |
John Pippin, Jr. for his father John L. Pippin USS Tangier |
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USS Tangier (AV-8) under way, date and location unknown.
US Navy photo. |
Tommy Trampp |
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Reserve Fleet Basin, Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Pennsylvania. Photographed on 19 May 1955 with numerous cruisers, escort carriers, and auxiliaries in reserve. The nearest ship is the never-completed
Hawaii (CB-3), which lacks her previously-installed three 12" gun turrets.
The cruisers outboard of Hawaii are (in unknown order)
Honolulu (CL-48),
Columbia (CL-56),
Denver (CL-58),
Galveston (CL-93), and
Portsmouth (CL-102).
To their left are
Tranquility (AH-14),
Sanctuary (AH-17), and
Pocono (AGC-16).
Behind Hawaii (from left to right) are
Montpelier (CL-57),
Houston (CL-81),
Huntington (CL-107),
Savannah (CL-42),
Cleveland (CL-55), and
Wilkes-Barre (CL-103).
Beyond them (from left to right) are
Wichita (CA-45),
Oregon City (CA-122),
Chester (CA-27), and
New Orleans (CA-32).
The cruisers on the left side of the basin (from front to rear) are
Minneapolis (CA-36),
Tuscaloosa (CA-37),
San Francisco (CA-38),
Augusta (CA-31),
Louisville (CA-28), and
Portland (CA-33).
Among the other ships in reserve in the basin are
Fomalhaut (AE-20),
Webster (ARV-2),
Albemarle (AV-5),
Tangier (AV-8),
Pocomoke (AV-9),
Chandeleur (AV-10),
Abatan (AW-4),
Mission San Carlos (AO-120),
Prince William (CVE-31),
Anzio (CVE-57),
Block Island (CVE-106),
Palau (CVE-122), and
San Carlos (AVP-51).
Moored in the shipyard at the extreme left are
Tennessee (BB-43),
California (BB-44), and
Cabot (CVL-28).
US Navy Photo # 80-G-668655, now in the collections of the US National Archives. |
Robert Hurst |
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WWII Pearl Harbor Survivor - I Am Well And Safe Postcard sent March 9 1943 by Pearl Harbor survivor Harris Jenkins Ingram, C.S.K. USNR.
This "I am Well" and "Safe" card was sent to his family by him from USS Tangier (AV-8). Ingram was aboard
USS Tangier during the Pearl Harbor Attack and continued his service in the ship through the end of World War II. |
Tommy Trampp |
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USS Tangier (AV-8) World War II Good Luck coin. |
Tommy Trampp |
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Sea-Land Services |
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Ex-USSTangier (AV-8) in merchant service as SS Detroit berthed at Bremerhaven, Germany the first time she called at that port, 4 May 1963. |
Photo by Gerhard L. Mueller-Debus |
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SS Detroit under way in harbor, circa 1970, location unknown.
© B. Rohbrecht |
Gerhard L. Mueller-Debus |
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SS Detroit berthed at Bremerhaven, Germany, July 1971 |
Photos by Gerhard L. Mueller-Debus |
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