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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 84534

USS Massachusetts (BB-59)


View looking forward from the ship's after deck, during a lull in the Battle of Casablanca, 8 November 1942.
Note: 16"/45 guns of her after turret; 20mm gun at left with "Lead, Dammit, Lead" printed on its shield; FC & FD radar antennas atop her gun directors; two large National Ensigns flying from her masts.

Collection of Rear Admiral Clifford Van Hook, 1972.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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17 February 2000