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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 97732

Aoba
(Japanese Heavy Cruiser, 1927)

View looking forward from the bridge, while the ship was underway prior to World War II.
Note her forward 20cm twin gun turrets.

The original halftone photograph came from Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's World War II history project working files.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 167KB; 680 x 630 pixels

Note:
The original print is somewhat disfigured by having the emulsion ripped away to the right of the ship image.

 

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7 November 2001