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Photo #: 19-N-32465-A

Antenna for CXAM radar


Mounted atop the foremast of USS Chester (CA-27). Taken at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 6 August 1942.
This image is cropped from Photo # 19-N-32465. See Photo # 19-N-32465-B for for an different version of this image, darkened to emphasize the antenna wires.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

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Image posted 14 June 2008