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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 97319

USS Bairoko (CVE-115)


"The 10,900 ton escort aircraft carrier, USS BAIROKO, is shown as she arrived at Pearl Harbor Thursday evening, July 28 (1949), from San Diego, Calif., with 30 officers and 150 enlisted personnel from Composite Squadron 25, which will receive six weeks' training with Fleet All Weather Training Unit at Barber's Point Naval Air Station, Oahu, T.H. The BAIROKO is commanded by Captain S. Gazze, USN, of Coronado, California".
Quoted from the original picture caption, released by 14th Naval District Public Information Office on 29 July 1949.

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

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5 September 2000