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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-K-554 (Color) USS President Adams (AP-38) Photographed from USS Wasp (CV-7), at Noumea, New Caledonia, 4 August 1942. She is crowded with U.S. Marines, bound for the invasion of Guadalcanal. USS Quincy (CA-39) is in the background. Note President Adams' liferafts, landing craft and climbing netting. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 93KB; 740 x 610 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

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Posted 29 September 1998
Rescanned and reposted 18 October 2001