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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 78343 Burning of French Transport Vinh-Long, 16 December 1922 French soldiers and sailors on board USS Bainbridge (DD-246), off Constantinople, Turkey, on 16 December 1922. They are some of the 482 survivors that Bainbridge rescued that morning as Vinh-Long burned in the Sea of Marmora. Note torpedo tubes. Donation of Frank A. Downey, 1973. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 87KB; 465 x 765 pixels

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16 October 2002