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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-40067 USS Boise (CL-47) Crewmen line the forward superstructure as the ship arrives at the Philadelphia Navy Yard in November 1942 to receive repairs for serious damage inflicted during the 11-12 October Battle of Cape Esperance. Note scoreboard of six Japanese naval flags, with cruiser and destroyer silhouettes, painted on the pilothouse side. See Photo # 80-G-36299 for a closer view of this scoreboard. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 92KB; 740 x 500 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

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13 December 2001