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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-709243 Operation "Passage to Freedom", 1954-1955 Navy Chaplain Lieutenant Francis J. Fitzpatrick assists Vietnamese refugees on board USS Bayfield (APA-33), circa September 1954. He acted as their intrepreter during their voyage to Saigon, Indochina, from Haiphong. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 102KB; 595 x 765 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

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10 April 2004