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USS Gilliam (APA-57) Steaming at 18 knots during trials on 28 July 1944, a few days before commissioning. Her 5"/38 gun on the stern is pointed at the camera. Photo No. Unknown (probably also 80-G-242729) Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM |
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USS Carteret (AP-70) Off San Pedro, Calif., on 24 December 1944, three weeks after commissioning. Photo No. 19-N-77259 Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM |
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USS Catron (AP-71) Probably at San Francisco in late 1945 or early 1946. Photo No. NH 98709 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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USS Cleburne (APA-73) At Pearl Harbor on 20 March 1946. Photo No. 19-N-114617 Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM |
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USS Cleburne (APA-73) At Pearl Harbor on 20 March 1946. Photo No. 19-N-114615 Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM |
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USS Fallon (APA-81) At Pearl Harbor on 22 March 1946. Photo No. 19-N-114599 Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM |
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Operation Crossroads Target Ships Gilliam-class target ships and support ships at Pearl Harbor between the end of February and mid March 1946. The large Navy ships from bottom to top are Crittenden (APA-77), Catron (APA-71), Bracken (APA-64), Burleson (APA-67) or Niagara (APA-87), Gilliam (APA-57), Fallon (APA-83), an unidentified Liberty ship, Fillmore (APA-83), Kochab (AKS-6), and Luna (AKS-7). To the extreme upper right is the Army power barge Jacona (later YFP-1). Photo No. 80-G-702126 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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USS Gilliam (APA-57) Underway at Pearl Harbor in a photograph backstamped 5 May 1946. Her hull frame numbers have been painted on her side and brackets are visible on the bow and bridge for possible monitoring equipment. Note that little, if any, equipment has been removed from the ship. She was the ship closest to the detonation point of the first atomic bomb tested at Bikini and sank immediately. Photo No. 19-N-116845 Source: U.S. National Archives, RG-19-LCM |
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USS Crittenden (APA-77) Off southern California on 5 October 1948 shortly before being sunk in the Demon 11 maneuvers there. Damaged in the Bikini atomic bomb tests, she was taken to San Francisco for study and then disposed of as an exercise target. Photo No. 80-G-396970 Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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