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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-K-2516

USS Walke
(DD-723), right center,
and
USS Mississippi (BB-41), left center

Cover the landings in Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, Philippine Islands, 9 January 1945. Two other destroyer types are present at each side of the photo.
Walke is painted in what appears to be Camouflage Measure 31, Design 25D. Mississippi's camouflage is Measure 32, Design 6D.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 48KB; 765 x 605 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

Note:
Though this was originally a color image, the original "Aero Kodacolor" transparency has lost all colors but red, and can now only be reproduced in monochrome.
For an example of this situation, which is typical of this film type, see Aero-Kodacolor Transparency 80-G-K-1560.

 

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8 December 2004