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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-K-13507 (Color)

USS Iowa (BB-61)

Being prepared for launching, at the New York Navy Yard, NY, circa late August 1942.
Note: heavy chains used to brake the ship after she had entered the water; and men lounging at lower right, near a Navy Department safety poster, listening to a Marine Corps band.

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

Online Image: 188KB; 580 x 765 pixels

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7 January 2000