The ATHERTON photographed at Pearl Harbor, nested with another destroyer escort. Crew milling about on her decks. Anchor ball raised on the mast. This was either captured in June/July 1945 when she passed through Pearl Harbor enroute to the Pacific Theater or on her return trip to the United States in November 1945.
She is painted in measure 21 camouflage. Handwritten on the reverse: "Leaving Pearl"