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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-706506

U.S. Sixth Task Fleet,
Commanded by Vice Admiral Forrest P. Sherman

Sixth Task Fleet ships silhouetted by the evening sun, while anchored in Phaleron Bay off Piraeus, Greece, 17 October 1948. The ships are (from left to right):
USS Little Rock (CL-92);
USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVB-42);
USS Providence (CL-82); and
USS Albany (CA-123).

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

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18 June 2003