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Photo #: NH 75610 Christening of Six Destroyer Escorts (DE) In a drydock at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, 29 May 1943. The three ships in the foreground are (from left): USS Enright (DE-216), USS Coolbaugh (DE-217) and USS Darby (DE-218). Those in the background are (from left), USS J. Douglas Blackwood (DE-219), USS Francis M. Robinson (DE-220) and USS Solar (DE-221). Courtesy of James Russell, 1972. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 147B; 740 x 600 pixels

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30 September 1999