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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 105410-KN (color)
USS O'Brien (DD-725)
Firing a torpedo during an exercise, circa 1952-1954.
Note the torpedo's yellow exercise warhead and the gray smoke
from the black powder launching charge.
Collection of James Edward Taylor. Courtesy of his wife, Mary
A. Taylor, 2007.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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