Augusta Photographs | World War II Database

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Seven cruisers at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 2 Feb 1933. Clockwise from left are Augusta, Chicago, Salt Lake City, Louisville, Pensacola, unidentified destroyer, Fox, Kane (on marine railway), Northampton, and Chester.	Cruiser USS Augusta entering Pearl Harbor, Hawaii passing the Ford Island seaplane hangars and minesweeper Avocet, 1933.

Augusta off Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii, 21 Jul 1933	Crew of USS Augusta, Shanghai, China, 6 Apr 1935; note Chester Nimitz front row just left of the life preserver and Lewis Puller in front row, third from right

Augusta in Dewey Drydock, Olongapo Naval Station, Philippines, 29 Jan 1936	USS Augusta off Pudong Point, Shanghai, China, during Second Battle of Shanghai, Aug 1937

USS Augusta displaying large US flags on top of her turrets during the Second Battle of Shanghai, China, 1937	USS Augusta at Shanghai, China, late May or early Jun 1939; note Japanese armored cruiser Izumo in far background

Adm Thomas Hart relieved Harry Yarnell aboard Augusta, off Shanghai, China, 25 Jul 1939	President Franklin Roosevelt and his dinner guests aboard the cruiser USS Augusta at the Atlantic Conference, Placentia Bay, Newfoundland, 9 Aug 1941.

Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, and Roosevelt's sons Franklin and Eliott aboard USS Augusta off Newfoundland, Aug 1941, photo 1 of 2	Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, and Roosevelt's sons Franklin and Eliott aboard USS Augusta off Newfoundland, Aug 1941, photo 2 of 2

Franklin Roosevelt receiving British First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Dudley Pound aboard the cruiser USS Augusta at the Atlantic Conference, Placentia Bay, Newfoundland, 10 Aug 1941.	Augusta near Bermuda, Sep 1941

Capt Carlton Wright and Knox aboard USS Augusta off Bermuda, Sep 1941	Augusta underway in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Maine, United States, Apr 1942

SOC Seagull aircraft just launched from Augusta's catapult, Casco Bay, Maine, United States, Jun 1942	Major General George Patton on the decks of the USS Augusta while crossing the Atlantic en route to the North African landings of Operation Torch, Oct-Nov 1942

Patton and Rear Admiral H. Kent Hewitt aboard USS Augusta, off North Africa, 8 or 9 Nov 1942	Rear Admiral Alan Kirk, Lieutenant General Omar Bradley, Rear Admiral Arthur Struble, Major General Hugh Keen, aboard USS Augusta off Normandy, France, 8 Jun 1944