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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 97601

USS Tarawa (CVA-40)


A band welcomes the carrier to Naval Air Station Quonset Point, Rhode Island, at the completion of a nearly one-year-long World cruise, 6 September 1954.
See Photo # NH 97601 (extended caption) for the text of the press release that accompanied this photograph.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

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1 May 2001