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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 43649

USS Houston (CA-30)
(right center)

At Darwin, Australia, probably on 15 or 18 February 1942. The destroyer astern of Houston may be USS Peary (DD-226). Among the ships in the background, to the left, are HMAS Terka and the SS Zealandia.
The donor was on board HMAS Tolga, then used as a water carrier for ships in Darwin harbor.

Courtesy of Arthur W. Thomas.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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12 March 2002