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Photo #: 80-G-12147-A

Antenna for CXAM radar


Mounted atop the foremast of USS Pensacola (CA-24). Photographed at Sand Island, Midway, 25 June 1942. The antenna is elevated in its supporting yoke.
This image is cropped from Photo # 80-G-12147.
Note the forms of men working on the antenna in the center and toward the left.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

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Image posted 14 June 2008