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Photo #: NH 106144-A Destroyer Division Seventeen Panoramic photograph of the Division's ships, taken by O.A. Tunnell in San Diego Harbor, California, probably on 14 August 1920. The ships are, from left to right: USS Kennison (DD-138); USS Claxton (DD-140); USS Ward (DD-139); USS Boggs (DD-136); and USS Hamilton (DD-141). This image is copied from the original print for Photo # NH 106144. Donation of Rear Admiral Joe Stanton Thompson, USN (Retired), 2008. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Online Image: 106KB; 1200 x 480 pixels
Photo #: NH 106144-B Destroyer Division Seventeen Panoramic photograph of the Division's ships, taken by O.A. Tunnell in San Diego Harbor, California, probably on 14 August 1920. The ships are, from left to right: USS Kennison (DD-138); USS Claxton (DD-140); USS Ward (DD-139); USS Boggs (DD-136); and USS Hamilton (DD-141). This image is copied from the original print for Photo # NH 106144. Donation of Rear Admiral Joe Stanton Thompson, USN (Retired), 2008. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Online Image: 111KB; 1200 x 440 pixels
Photo #: NH 42539 "Red Lead Row", San Diego Destroyer Base, California Photographed at the end of 1922, with at least 65 destroyers tied up there. Many of the ships present are identified in Photo # NH 42539 (complete caption). U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Online Image: 159KB; 740 x 515 pixels
Photo #: NH 106144 Destroyer Division Seventeen Panoramic photograph of the officers and crews of the Division's ships, photographed by O.A. Tunnell in San Diego Harbor, California, 14 August 1920. Ships are, from left to right: USS Kennison (DD-138); USS Claxton (DD-140); USS Ward (DD-139); USS Boggs (DD-136); and USS Hamilton (DD-141). Photographs of the ships, nested together on probably the same date, are vignetted into the upper corners. See Photo #s NH 106144-A and NH 106144-B for separate views of these two photos. Donation of Rear Admiral Joe Stanton Thompson, USN (Retired), 2008. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Online Image: 233KB; 2000 x 415 pixels
Photo #: NH 97446 USS Ward (DD-139) "A Shot for Posterity -- The USS Ward's number three gun and its crew-cited for firing the first shot the day of Japan's raid on Hawaii. Operating as part of the inshore patrol early in the morning of December 7, 1941, this destroyer group spotted a submarine outside Pearl Harbor, opened fire and sank her. Crew members are R.H. Knapp - BM2c - Gun Captain, C.W. Fenton - Sea1c - Pointer, R.B. Nolde - Sea1c - Trainer, A.A. De Demagall - Sea1c - No. 1 Loader, D.W. Gruening - Sea1c - No. 2 Loader, J.A. Paick - Sea1c - No. 3 Loader, H.P. Flanagan - Sea1c - No. 4 Loader, E.J. Bakret - GM3c - Gunners Mate, K.C.J. Lasch - Cox - Sightsetter." (quoted from the original 1942-vintage caption) This gun is a 4"/50 type, mounted atop the ship's midships deckhouse, starboard side. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command. Online Image: 83KB; 740 x 610 pixels
Photo #: NH 95582 USS Ward (APD-16) Crewmen pose with their ship's battle "scoreboard", soon after the Biak Invasion, circa June 1944. Nearly all of these men had served in Ward since the beginning of the War, and were present when she sank a Japanese midget submarine just outside Pearl Harbor on the morning of 7 December 1941. For the original caption, including identification of those present, see: Photo # NH 95582 (complete caption). Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command. Online Image: 91KB; 740 x 600 pixels
Photo #: 80-G-255436 Cape Sansapor Invasion, 1944 Army troops boarding USS Ward (APD-16) at Maffin Bay, New Guinea, en route to the Cape Sansapor landings, 30 July 1944. Boat is one of Ward's LCP(R)s. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 115KB; 740 x 610 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.
Photo #: 80-G-255440 Cape Sansapor Invasion, 1944 Army troops eating on deck aboard USS Ward (APD-16) while en route to the Cape Sansapor landings, 30 July 1944. Note compartmented metal meal trays, and rivets in deck plates. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 109KB; 740 x 535 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.
Photo #: 80-G-270773 USS Ward (APD-16) Afire after she was hit by a "Kamikaze" in Ormoc Bay, Leyte, on 7 December 1944. She sank later in the day. Exactly three years earlier, on the morning of 7 December 1941, while on patrol off Pearl Harbor, Ward fired the first shot of the Pacific War. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 68KB; 605 x 765 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

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USS Ward (Destroyer # 139, later DD-139 and APD-16), 1918-1944.

NOTES:

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