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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 96810 USS Missouri (BB-63) Sailors loading the ship with supplies, probably during her shakedown period, circa July-September 1944. An endless "human chain" carries boxes of Lucky Strike cigarettes from the truck up the gangway and onto Missouri's forward main deck. The original caption states: "An average of five cases of cigarettes is smoked during a tour at sea". Photograph was received by the Naval Photographic Science Laboratory on 30 October 1944. U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Online Image: 111KB; 740 x 615 pixels

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8 February 1999