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2019.09 Stephen Jacobson Photo Collection
2019.09 Stephen Jacobson Photo Collection

Topic
  • Cruises, Deployments, and Exercises
  • Boats-Ships--Support Ships
Document Type
  • Finding Aids Glossaries Guides
  • Photograph
Wars & Conflicts
  • World War II 1939-1945
Navy Communities
File Formats
  • Image (gif, jpg, tiff)
Location of Archival Materials
Author Name
Place of Event
Recipient Name
Title: Stephen Jacobson Photo Collection
Description: Collection of approximately 150 photographs related to the naval service of Elmer Alfred “Jake” Jacobson aboard USS LCT 1283 during WWII. The images mostly take place on Okinawa, Sasebo, Nagasaki, and Japanese islands between 1945 and 1946. Approximately 100 photographs include item level descriptions and captions as noted by Jacobson. Subject matter topics are listed below.
Catalog#: 2019.09
Donor: Stephen Jacobson
Copyright Owner: Naval History & Heritage Command
Circa: 1945-1946
Format: Black & white photographs

Collection Guide: 

  • LCT 1283 – general activities, crew members, unloading supplies, views aboard ship and at sea

  • Navy fleet in Okinawa

  • Japanese ships in harbor

  • Nagasaki – bomb damage, towns, village scenes, buildings, fishing boats, harbor

  • Sasebo Harbor – LCTs anchored in harbor                                                                                                                                                                                  

  • LCTs – anchored, demobilized, at sea, wrecked and damage due to typhoon Ida in 1945 (LCT 853 is seen with damage)

  • Japanese aircraft – Kamikaze planes, downed in ocean, damaged

  • Okinawa – air raids, village scenes, villagers, First Marine Division cemetery, city of Naha

  • Japanese soldiers – killed in action, LCT 1283 loading Japanese soldiers off LST 546

  • Japanese tank

  • Japanese ships – destroyers, at sea, aircraft carrier, cruiser, captured I-400 submarine, hospital ship

  • Seabee bases in Japan

  • USS Tazewell (APA-209) transporting troops home

For information about the rest of the collection: nhhcphotoarchives@navy.mil