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Photo #: 19-N-50812 USS Fletcher (DD-445) At the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 13 August 1943. USS Hazelwood (DD-531) is in the background. Note anchor chain, winch and Jack at Fletcher's bow; also crewmen on the foredeck smoking cigarettes and clowning for the benefit of the photographer. Circles mark recent alterations, among them the addition of 40mm twin mounts on each side of the forward and midships superstructure. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 123KB; 585 x 765 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

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19 February 2002