Photo #: 80-G-405279 USS Wichita (CA-45) In heavy weather, while patrolling in the North Atlantic, circa early 1942. View looks forward from the pilothouse, with the forward 5"/38 gun's barrel in the foreground. Note the life rafts stowed atop the # 2 eight-inch gun turret. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 74KB; 655 x 675 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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25 February 2002