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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-K-109 (Color) USS Minneapolis (CA-36) Refueling at sea from a Navy oiler, during the Marshall Islands operation, January 1944. Photographed from USS Cowpens (CVL-25). The oiler is one of the few that were fitted with a Mark 37 gun director, visible atop her bridge. Note the red navigation light on the oiler's port bridge wing. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 140KB; 740 x 605 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

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11 February 2002