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USS LEWIS DE 535 during sea trials on 16 September 1944
USS LEWIS DE 535 in 1945
Wearing War Paint in 1944
Painting of the Lewis just prior to entering a typhoon on 5 June, 1945
Lewis at sea 1944
Lewis and Marsh stop in Pearl Harbor on their way home in November 1952
Lewis at sea sometime after 1952. The second mast was added in 52.
USS LEWIS DE 535, USS CURRIER DE 700, USS EVANS DE 1023, AND USS WISEMAN DE 667 IN LATE 1950s
The Lewis assisting the Bathyscaphe Trieste on project Nekton in the Marianas Trench near Guam. On January 23, 1960 the Trieste with help from the Lewis dove into the deepest point in the ocean, 35,800 feet below sea level, at the Challenger Deep.
Sitting in drydock sometime during the early 50s
More drydock
Moored at a dock in Apra harbor, Guam 1953
Launching the whale boat. San Diego 1956
Ships whaleboat in choppy water
USS MISSOURI BB 63 cruising off the mouth of Wonson harbor, North Korea. It was always nice to see a battle wagon that close, because all the North Korean gunners took the day off. They had no desire to tangle with the big guns of a battle ship. What was amazing was that one could actually see the 16 inch projectiles as they left the guns made a large arc and hit somewhere on a mountain side.
On October 21, 1952, while providing a smoke screen for two South Korean mine sweepers, the Lewis was struck by shore fire. A fifty percent loss of power left the Lewis in a vulnerable position. The USS Naifeh DE 352 then laid a smoke screen between the Lewis and the shore batteries allowing time to get out of gun range before any more damage resulted.
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