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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 56560

USS Boxer (CV-21)


Slides down the building ways, during launching ceremonies at the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia, 14 December 1944.
Note banner spread across the front of Boxer's flight deck, proclaiming: "Here We Go to Tokyo! Newport News Shipyard Workers' War Bonds Help to Sink the Rising Sun".

Courtesy of William H. Davis.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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5 June 2000