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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo # NH 106710

USS Shamrock Bay
(CVE-84), left foreground

About to leave Pier Number Two at Astoria, Oregon, 6 April 1944.
Photographed from an airplane attached to USS Shipley Bay (CVE-85).
The other two escort aircraft carriers visible are unidentified.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command.

Online Image: 147KB; 900 x 760

 

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    Image Posted 3 December 2009