Pictures copied from the 1951 USS Helena CA-75 Cruise Book.

Moored alongside in the home port.

Provisions numbered in the hundreds of tons and included many different items.

Final preparations for the forward area included dockside provisions and loading ammunition.
It required a week to properly load and store the necessary "gear".

Loading provisions.

Loading ammunition included all sizes; here, eight-inch powder cases are handled carefully.

On April Second the crew of the Helena took their last look for many months at their friends and families
gathered on the Long Beach breakwater.
Six weeks of intensive training and preparations in this port were soon to prove fruitful in the Far East.