2 Orig WWII Photos USS Beale Sailors on
Nagasaki Leave. 4" x 6" satin doubleweight. Taken by a USN crew member
from the Fletcher Class Destroyer USS Beale, which saw a lot of action
in the South Pacific 1943-45.
Beale was laid down on 19 December 1941 at Staten Island, N.Y., by the Bethlehem Steel Co.;
launched on 24 August 1942; sponsored by Miss Nancy Beale, a
great-grandniece of LT Beale; and commissioned on 23 December 1942 at
the New York Navy Yard, Commander Joe B. Cochran in command.
She arrived in Nagasaki
on the 15th Sep.1945 and began duty in support of the Allied occupation. During
the next two months, she visited several Japanese ports while engaged
in courier duty, demilitarization inspections, and escort missions.
On 15 November, the destroyer stood out of Sasebo for the voyage back to the United States.
