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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-13106

USS Neosho (AO-23)


A wave breaks over her main deck, engulfing the hose crew, as she refuels USS Yorktown (CV-5) in early May 1942, shortly before the Battle of Coral Sea.
Neosho was lost in that battle.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 152KB; 740 x 625 pixels

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8 April 1999