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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 61695 USS Balch (DD-363) Off the Bethlehem Steel Company's Fore River Plant, Quincy, Massachusetts, 23 September 1936, probably during builder's trials. The ship's gun directors and 1.1" anti-aircraft machine guns have not yet been fitted. Note that Balch's bow numbers are painted close to the waterline. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 85KB; 740 x 595 pixels

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2 May 2002