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| Keywords: USS Stewart (DD-224) in late 1945.jpg The U S Navy destroyer USS Stewart DD-224 probably at Kure Japan in late 1945 Note the Japanese flag painted on her midships superstructure side with P102 showing faintly below She carries Japanese radar antennas atop her pilothouse a two-horn Mark 2 Model 2 and abaft her foremast a ladder-shaped Type 3 Mark 1 Model 3 <br> Stewart had been captured by the Japanese damaged and sunk in a floating drydock at Surabaya Java She was reparied and commissioned as Patrol Boat No 102 on 20 September 1943 The ship was found laid up by U S occupation forces and recommissioned on 29 October 1945 as DD-224 as USS Stewart DE-238 was active with the U S Navy Note that she wears both the Japanese hull number P102 as the U S Navy hull number 224 on this photo Stewart was transferred back to the U S but had to be towed before reaching Guam as her machinery gave out http //www navy mil/ah_online/department_arch html U S Navy All Hands magazine http //www navy mil/ah_online/archpdf/ah194604 pdf April 1946 p 49; official U S Navy photo http //www history navy mil/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nara-series/80-g/80-G-490000/80-G-496014 html 80-G-496014 from the U S Navy http //www history navy mil Naval History and Heritage Command 1945 U S Navy PD-USGov-Military-Navy USS Stewart DD-224 | ||||
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