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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-57445

Cape Gloucester Invasion, December 1943


USS Phoenix (CL-46) firing her 6"/47 guns during the pre-invasion bombardment of Cape Gloucester, New Britain, circa 24-26 December 1943.
Photographed from the ship's fantail, looking forward.

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

Online Image: 61KB; 740 x 600 pixels

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20 May 2002