Gamage/Inca (IX-227/IX-229): Photographs
| These photographs were selected to show the original configuration of this class and major subsequent modifications. For more views see the former NHHC (now Hyperwar) Online Library of Selected Images and the NavSource Photo Archive. |
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USS Inca (IX-229) Aground at Buckner Bay, Okinawa, after Typhoon Louise ravaged the harbor there on 9 October 1945. The hull number IX-229 is clearly legible on the bow, indicating that the ship's crew was unaware in October that the ship had been redesignated Gamage (IX-227) by the Navy Department back in August. News of this change does not appear to have arrived in the Western Pacific until January 1946. This photo was taken by an Army Air Force dental officer, Herbert F. Gabriel, who probably visited the site relatively soon after the end of the war. Photo No. NH 101694 (detail) Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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USS Inca (IX-229) Aground at Buckner Bay, Okinawa, after Typhoon Louise ravaged the harbor there on 9 October 1945. The wreck beyond her on the right is LST-823. Photo No. U.S. Army C-6343 (detail) Source: U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command |
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