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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 96051
USS Shangri-La (CV-38)
Comes alongside USS Attu (CVE-102) to transfer personnel
and supplies, 3 September 1945. Attu's cruise book claims that this was the first side-by-side
underway replenishment by two aircraft carriers.
Collection of Captain Hays R. Browning, USNR.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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