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Photo #: NH 103377
USS Basilone (DD-824)
Sergeant Lena Mae Basilone, USMC(WR), ship's sponsor, prepares
to christen the destroyer, at the Consolidated Steel Company
Shipyard, Orange, Texas, on 21 December 1945. She was the widow
of Gunnery Sergeant John J. Basilone, USMC, in whose honor the
ship was named.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the "All Hands"
collection at the Naval Historical Center.
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