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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 97865

USS Laffey (DD-459)


In harbor, probably at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, with survivors of USS Wasp (CV-7) on board.
Wasp had been sunk by a Japanese submarine on 15 September 1942.
Cruiser in the left background is USS Helena (CL-50), with a destroyer tied to her starboard side.

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

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11 February 2002