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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 107276

USS Wainwright
(DD-419)

Underway off the U.S. East Coast on 5 May 1944, while assigned to escort and training duties.
The ship is wearing Camouflage Measure 22.
Note the two men on the starboard bridge wing and the man on the main deck below the after conn.
Photographed from a blimp of Lighter Than Air Patrol Squadron 11 (ZP-11).

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

Online Image: 168 KB; 900 x 760 pixels

 

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    Image posted 18 November 2010