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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 48909

USS Pensacola (CL-24)


Actress Ethyl Merman, star of the stage hit "Girl Crazy", presents a young goat (lower right) to the ship's crew, possibly at about the time of Pensacola's commissioning in February 1930.
Accepting the gift is the ship's Commanding Officer, Captain Alfred G. Howe, USN.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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29 January 2002