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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-K-3031 (Color) USS Alaska (CB-1) Firing 5"/38 guns on 5 February 1945, one day before the ship arrived at Ulithi and joined the fast carrier task force. Note "flak" bursts in the left distance. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 92KB; 585 x 765 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

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1 March 2000