Click On Image
For Full Size Image |
Size |
Image Description |
Contributed
By |
USAT American Legion
|
|
74k |
USAT American Legion, circa 1940, underway, location unknown. Photo from Frederick Wood Collection |
Stanley C. Svec |
USS American Legion (AP-35)
|
|
130k |
American Legion (AP-35), undergoing conversion to a Navy transport, at the Atlantic Basin Iron Works, Brooklyn, New York, on 28 August 1941. She appears to be undergoing repainting from her white US Army Transport color scheme to dark gray Navy camouflage paint. Note the weathered neutrality flag painted on her hull side amidships. The tanker Royal Arrow is visible in the right background. US National Archive photo # 19-N-25097, a US Navy photo from the Bureau of Ships Collection now in the National Archives. |
US Naval Historical Center |
|
94k |
American Legion (AP-35) at New York Navy Yard, Brooklyn, New York, 25 October 1941. Note her weathered dark gray camouflage paint, with white canvas lifeboat covers. US National Archive photo # 19-N-25715, a US Navy photo from the Bureau of Ships Collection now in the National Archives. |
US Naval Historical Center |
USS American Legion (APA-17)
|
|
111k |
Amidships plan view of American Legion (APA-17) at Alameda, CA., 5 April 1944 Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 2144 |
Darryl Baker |
|
90k |
Forward plan view of American Legion (APA-17) at Alameda, CA., 5 April 1944 Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 2147 |
Darryl Baker |
|
88k |
Broadside view of American Legion (APA-17) in San Francisco Bay, 6 April 1944 Navy Yard Mare Island photo # 2150 |
Darryl Baker |
|
81k |
American Legion (APA-17) underway, circa 1944-45, location unknown. US Navy photo # NH 92699, from the Collection of Rear Admiral Bradford Bartlett, USN, 1981, at the US Naval Historical Center. |
US Naval Historical Center |
|
92k |
American Legion (APA-17) partially enveloped in a smoke screen, during amphibious training exercises off the Southern California coast, circa 1944-45. US Navy photo # NH 92700, from the Collection of Rear Admiral Bradford Bartlett, USN, 1981, at the US Naval Historical Center. |
Robert Hurst |
|
58k |
American Legion (APA-17), off San Francisco, CA., in 1945-46, probably after the end of World War II. Note that her forward guns have been removed. US Navy photo # NH 77398, from the Collection of Donald M. McPherson, 1973, at the US Naval Historical Center. |
US Naval Historical Center |