USS LANSING DE 388  Richard B. Knowlton FC2c
photos taken while aboard DE388    1944-1945

Photos provided by Ruth Knowlton

Best scene in the world. The skyline of the big city taken from near Governors Island.   Aug. 1944




Skyline of N.Y.C.   Aug. 1944





The Lady in the Bay.    Aug. 1944





Memorial to soldiers of World War I in Oran.    Jan. 1945





Roman Catholic Church in Oran. Statue of Joan of Arc in front.    Jan. 1945




Entrance to the ships canal in Bizerte.    Aug. 1944

 

View of waterfront in Oran Looking North.    Jan. 1945

   
The base ball team.   Aug. 1944

   
Aircraft graveyard outside of Bizerte. All types of enemy and friendly planes here.   Aug. 1945

 
  Ashore in Bizerte Aug. 1944

 

Gross C.G.M    Paskman C.Y.    Perry C.R.M.   Averill C.Ph.M    Aug. 1944
   

View of waterfront in Oran looking West.     Jan. 1945 
 

View of waterfront in Oran looking east.  Jan. 1945

 

Statue of Garibaldi outside of railroad station in Palermo Sicily.   Oct. 1944

 

Street scene in Termini, Sicily.  Oct. 1944

 

Cart on the street in Palermo, Sicily.   Oct. 1944

 

Cathedral in Palermo still protected by sand bags.   Oct. 1944

 

Overlooking Bizerte from East side of channel. Taken from inside an Italian Prisoner of war camp.   July 1944

      Catacombs near Palermo, Sicily.  Oct. 1944


Ruins of a Roman Catholic Church in Bizerte.   July 1944.


5 Destroyer Escorts. (388 is 3rd from left) and Coast Guard Cutter Bibb moored to pier in Bizerte.  July 1944.



Native boat to buy cigarettes ($12 per carton). Destroyer Escort in background.  Oct. 1944.



DE 387 (USS Vance) and DE 389 (USS Durant) moored at Bizerte.  Oct. 1944
 

 

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