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Photo #: NH 59674

"DesRon 23"


An illustrated poem relating Destroyer Squadron 23's exploits and attitudes during the Central Solomon's campaign of late 1943 and early 1944, when Captain Arleigh A. Burke was the Squadron's Commodore.
Copied from "The Thatcher's War with Japan", published by the crew of USS Thatcher (DD-514).

Courtesy of John T. Fallon, 1961.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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13 April 2004