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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 19-N-29983 USS San Diego (CL-53) Is christened by Grace Legler Benbough (Mrs. Percy J. Benbough), during launching ceremonies at the Bethlehem Steel Company shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, 26 July 1941. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 110KB; 740 x 615 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

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14 January 2002