Title
Liberty Party Aboard
Description
A black and white photograph taken from the gallery deck of the USS Yorktown. Yorktown sailors stand in 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 "With the "Liberty Party" all aboard the LCVP we cast off all lines to make the two mile trip to the beach. We Left our "FIGHTING LADY" at rest after traveling more that 235,000 miles to "drop the hook" in TOKYO BAY."
The caption accompanying the photo reads "With the "Liberty Party" all aboard the LCVP we cast off all lines to make the two mile trip to the beach. We Left our "FIGHTING LADY" at rest after traveling more that 235,000 miles to "drop the hook" in TOKYO BAY."
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
