Photo #: 19-N-29230 USS Blue (DD-387) -- outboard, and USS Ralph Talbot (DD-390) -- inboard At the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 11 April 1942. Among the details visible are: newly-installed 20mm guns; blowers mounted on deck aft of # 2 5"/38 gun; Mk. 33 gun directors atop pilothouse; radio-direction finding antennas on pilothouse face; and quadruple torpedo tubes amidships. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 155KB; 605 x 765 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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12 October 2001