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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-245431 USS Nelson (DD-623) Under tow toward Boston harbor, Massachusetts, on 26 August 1944, following temporary repairs in England. Nelson's stern had been blown off by a torpedo from a German motor torpedo boat in a night attack off Normandy on 13 June 1944. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 124KB; 740 x 610 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

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18 December 2003