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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 19-N-105833

USS Houston (CL-81)


Damage to the ship's starboard quarter, resulting from a Japanese aerial torpedo hit received off Formosa on 16 October 1944.
Photographed in a floating drydock at Ulithi Atoll, circa November 1944. The upper part of the torpedo hole had been partially patched when this view was made.
Note Houston's propellers and badly distorted rudder.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

Online Image: 93KB; 740 x 605 pixels

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11 February 2003