Underway off the U.S. Pacific coast on 20 September 1944, during her shakedown period.
Photographed from a 300 foot altitude by a ZP-31 blimp.

Ship's Commanding Officer, Captain Etheridge Grant, USN, (center), checks charts with a Japanese Navy pilot and Lieutenant Rogers, USN, (at right), as the seaplane tender prepares to enter Tokyo Bay, 28 August 1945.

USS Twining (DD-540) steams in Sagami Wan, outside of Tokyo Bay, in company with other Third Fleet warships, to support the occupation of Yokosuka naval base, 28 August 1945. Mount Fuji is in the left center distance
Photographed from USS Cumberland Sound (AV-17).

USS Cumberland Sound, a 8000-ton Kenneth Whiting class seaplane tender, was built at Tacoma, Washington. Commissioned in August 1944, she served in the Pacific during the remainder of World War II and was present in Tokyo Bay when Japan surrendered on 2 September 1945. After supporting the occupation of Japan and transporting servicemen home following the war's end, Cumberland Sound participated in the Operation "Crossroads" atomic bomb tests during the Summer of 1946. She was decommissioned in May 1947 and remained in the Pacific reserve fleet until sold in April 1962.

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