Bob Hudson Posted September 22, 2019 Share #1 Posted September 22, 2019 This was from Pvt. Cecil J Schwartz, Asiatic Fleet, USS Pittsburgh, Marine Detachment, Sept 1929 to May 1931. There are over 400 photos in the leather album with the front cover depicting places visited by the Pittsburgh including during it's last cruise from Asia to Norfolk, where she was sold for scrap. FOUND THESE TWO MUSTER ROLL ENTRIES ONLINE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Dirk Posted September 22, 2019 Share #6 Posted September 22, 2019 Home run! Nice leather dragon album from I think Photo Sales company highlighting the last years of this long serving Asatic Fleet ship Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teufelhunde.ret Posted September 23, 2019 Share #7 Posted September 23, 2019 Home run! Nice leather dragon album from I think Photo Sales company highlighting the last years of this long serving Asatic Fleet ship ... I know your drooling over this one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Hudson Posted September 23, 2019 Author Share #8 Posted September 23, 2019 Home run! Nice leather dragon album from I think Photo Sales company highlighting the last years of this long serving Asatic Fleet ship My client sent me these photos but today I'll see them in person as well as some documents, including the Pittsburgh's iitinerary for its voyage from the China Sea to the Chesapeake & Norfolk. Also - what looks like a cruise book: CRUISIN' AROUND it was called: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Hudson Posted September 23, 2019 Author Share #9 Posted September 23, 2019 Picked up the album today and it has more photos than I expected, plus some documents and a cruise book for the Pittsburgh's last Asiatic Fleet cruise before heading east through the Suez to Norfolk. I haven't had a time to take a look at the photos I had seen before, but I did want to share this: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Pip Posted September 24, 2019 Share #11 Posted September 24, 2019 Nice! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Hudson Posted September 24, 2019 Author Share #12 Posted September 24, 2019 Here's some more of the cruisebook: http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/333261-asiatic-fleet-cruisebook-uss-pittsburgh-last-cruise-china-to-pi-to-usa/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Hudson Posted September 24, 2019 Author Share #13 Posted September 24, 2019 It turns out there are over 400 photos in the book including some in places like Egypt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Bob Hudson Posted September 24, 2019 Author Share #17 Posted September 24, 2019 Here's the rare cruisebook for the Pittsburgh's last Asian voyage before heading back to the USA and de-commissioning. http://www.usmilitariaforum.com/forums/index.php?/topic/333261-final-cruise-of-uss-pittsburgh-asiatic-fleet-to-usa/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bob Hudson Posted October 17, 2019 Author Share #18 Posted October 17, 2019 Here's a slide show of the 29 or so pages (perhaps 145 photos) with China contents - this is about half of the total content of the album: And here's a slideshow focused mostly on closeups of the Marines at work and play: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P-40Warhawk Posted October 17, 2019 Share #19 Posted October 17, 2019 Awesome piece of history, you couldn't ask for a better example. Looks like he went just about everywhere ('see the world'?!). The photo captioned "DRY-DOCK at OLONGAPO" shows the Dewey Drydock, a floating drydock that was scuttled in 1941 when Japan invaded the Philippines (they later raised it and we sank it again later in WWII). The photo is of the old Subic Bay base, and the smoke is coming from the funnels of the drydock (it had 3). The Tsingtao photos are interesting, it had been fortified by Imperial Germany before WWI. Following attacks primarily by Japanese forces (Allies in WWI), it capitulated in early November 1914 and was an early Allied victory of that war. One of the photos looks to show Japanese sailors in marching order. Thanks for making the video of the album. Great composition and topic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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