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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-K-5986 (Color) Loss of USS Indianapolis, July 1945 Survivors of USS Indianapolis (CA-35) are brought ashore from USS Tranquillity (AH-14) at Guam, 8 August 1945. Nurses and sailors are watching from the hospital ship's deck. Note Tranquillity's nested lifeboats. Also busses on the pier. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 114KB; 580 x 765 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. Note on color quality: The original ANSCO transparency has degraded color, with purples and greens predominating. This has been somewhat corrected in this reproduction.

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31 December 1998