Collection Guide:
Several dozen photographs from the Naval career of RADM Kemp Tolley. Photographs show his time during the Yangtze River Patrol in China during the 1930s and with the Atlantic Fleet in the years after WW2. Images show: USS Olympia (C-6); USS Chaumont (AP-5); Hong Kong Harbor & sites around the island; wrecked merchant ships on the Yangtze River; USS Huron in dry dock at Subic Bay; USS Tutuila (PR 4); USS Tulsa (PG 22); USS Maryland (BB 46); USS Rochester (CA 124); USS Texas (BB 35); USS Vermilion (AKA 107); LST 1041; LSTRon 2 - Atlantic Fleet in 1948; soldiers from Tunisia & Crete in the late 1940s; HMS Kent off Crete in 1947; a portrait of RADM Roscoe F. Good; ADM William H.P. Blandy, RADM Jerauld Wright, and Capt. Kemp Tolley
NHHCPhotoArchives@Navy.mil
For associated textual materials, please visit the donated personal papers collection of Kemp Tolley
