Photo #: 19-N-61366 HMS Trouncer (British Escort Aircraft Carrier, 1944) Alongside a pier at Portland, Oregon on 9 February 1944, soon after completion. Commissioned for a few days as USS Perdido (CVE-47), this ship was transferred to the United Kingdom under Lend-Lease at the end of January 1944 and thereafter served in the Royal Navy. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives. Online Image: 83KB; 900 x 585 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Image posted 19 November 2009
Credit line corrected 9 January 2010