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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 78379
USS Augusta (CA-31)
Anchored off Pootung Point, Shanghai, China, during Sino-Japanese
hostilities, circa August 1937.
Fires from combat action are burning ashore, beyond the ship.
Courtesy of Captain P. Henry, Jr., USN (Retired), 1973.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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