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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: USN 1045041

USS Des Moines
(CA-134)

Crew practicing "manning the rail" in advance of President Dwight D Eisenhower's visit to the ship, 15 December 1959.
Des Moines was Sixth Fleet flagship at the time.

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

Online Image: 122KB; 900 x 760 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system as Photo # 428-N-1045041.

 

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    Image posted 7 May 2009