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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: SC 209538

USS Augusta (CA-31)


Steaming toward Antwerp, Belgium, 15 July 1945, as she carried President Harry S. Truman on his way to take part in the Potsdam conference.
Photographed from USS Philadelphia (CL-41), which escorted Augusta during the trip. The port wing of one of Philadelphia's OS2U floatplanes is at left.

Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

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5 March 1999