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Photo #: NH 92284

USS Antaeus
(AS-21)

At the Philadelphia Navy Yard on 25 June 1943.
During this overhaul her armament was upgraded to one 4"/50 gun and two 3"/50 guns aft, visible here, and two more 3"/50 guns forward.
USS Phoenix (CL-46) is in drydock in the distance at the left, with a 6"/47 gun turret on the pier nearby.

Courtesy of Frank Jankowski, 1981.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the U.S. Naval Historical Center.

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Image posted 26 June 2005