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Just clicked on the Navy pre-June 1965 link:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/35033278@N00/sets/72157594412806507/with/352040586/

There are seemingly hundreds of amazing color photos from around 1960 around Boston and NY, with many wartime and 50s ships, including battleships, cruisers, carriers and escort carriers, loads of destroyers, auxilliarys and coast guard ships, many photos of ships in conversion or extended maintenance, and great atmospheric shots of the dockayards. An amazing reference and resource.

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Additional information on US Navy bases in WWII, added for future reference.

Volume 1, part II: http://www.history.navy.mil/library/online/buildbaseswwii/bbwwii1.htm
Volume 2, part III: http://www.history.navy.mil/library/online/buildbaseswwii/bbwwii2.htm

Make sure to click on the Flickr links UNDER each photo of the BNY, right click the image and click "original" for the high-res versions :thumbs_up_1:

Nice find man, thanks for sharing. Now I have even more diorama ideas...thanks :big_grin:

PS, look through the rest of 25k photos on Flickr if you want more eye candy guys!

Anyone interested in Boston Navy yard, or US Navy around 1960, or both?

Click link below, and go to post #534 ... and feast your eyes!

http://www.skyscrapercity.com/showthread.php?t=294999&page=27

The AWESOME responsibility of the first post! :lol_3:

At any rate, here are some shipyard links that I have found

http://www.navyyard.org/history Philadelphia Naval Shipyard
http://philly-yardbird.com
http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/pj_display.cfm/86214
http://yorkship.us/ New York Shipbuilding Corp at Camden, NJ

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html Search Naval Base Philadelphia or Naval shipyard (your choice)

Russ