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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