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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

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

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25 February 2002