Taylor with cruiser USS Boise, CL 47, (left) bombarding Corregidor, February 1945. Click on any image to view it in more detail.

Cameras were not permitted on most warships during World War II, Taylor included, so photos of the ship are scarce.

1944
   The top six photos at right show Taylor during her January 1944 refit at Mare Island, California, and three of the customary images taken in San Francisco Bay of ships that had completed their modernization and were preparing to return to sea.
   The bottom three photos show Taylor in her early-1944 camouflage—with Jenkins in the first photo. Note the screen on Taylor’s bow for showing movies.

SAGAMI WAN AND TOKYO BAY
   The first two photos (left, below) show the Flagship Task Group on August 27, 1945 passing O Shima Island—with Taylor out of view to the right—and Taylor at anchor with O’Bannon in Sagami Wan viewed from Nicholas, with Mt. Fuji in the background. The third and fourth photos show some of the photographers who boarded Taylor for transport from the Custom House pier to Missouri for the surrender, and Taylor on her return to the pier (left) with Lansdowne and another Allied destroyer outboard.
   The last photo above shows Taylor’s gun director, painted as she approached Japanese home waters.