Title
Back on Liberty
Description
A black and white photograph of USS Yorktown sailors being lowered by the ship's crane into an LCVP that will take them to shore in Tokyo. The photo is from an album containing 53 photographs taken by Warren Tucker and his friends during the USS Yorktown (CV-10) crew liberty in Tokyo, Japan in September of 1945.
The caption accompanying the photo reads "After two days work aboard our "pig iron" home it would call for our section to have LIBERTY again. This time it was a much longer trip in the LCVP but we didn't mind because it would find us in......."
The caption accompanying the photo reads "After two days work aboard our "pig iron" home it would call for our section to have LIBERTY again. This time it was a much longer trip in the LCVP but we didn't mind because it would find us in......."
Collection
Warren Tucker Collection
Context
Warren "Bill" Tucker was a Photographers Mate in the Naval Aviation Photographic Unit aboard the USS Yorktown (CV-10) during World War II.
Transferred aboard the USS Yorktown in 1944 with no photography experience, Seaman Tucker was assigned to the photo lab and found he had a talent for the work. Tucker received his promotion to Photographers Mate 3/c in 1945 with most of his work documenting the final days of World War II and the beginnings of Occupied Japan.
From the Collection of Warren Tucker.
Transferred aboard the USS Yorktown in 1944 with no photography experience, Seaman Tucker was assigned to the photo lab and found he had a talent for the work. Tucker received his promotion to Photographers Mate 3/c in 1945 with most of his work documenting the final days of World War II and the beginnings of Occupied Japan.
From the Collection of Warren Tucker.
Accession #
2024.3
