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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-K-559 (Color) USS President Jackson (AP-37) (in the distance) Alongside an oiler, probably at Noumea, New Caledonia, as seen from USS Wasp (CV-7) on the eve of the Guadalcanal-Tulagi invasion. Photo is dated 4 August 1942. Ship in the foreground is an as-yet little modified "flush-deck" destroyer, with no hull number showing. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 85KB; 740 x 600 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

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13 November 2001