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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-275940

New Mexico class battleships at Pearl Harbor, 17 December 1943


Photographed from USS Natoma Bay (CVE-62), shortly after the conclusion of the Gilberts Campaign.
The three battleships, in an anchorage protected by anti-torpedo nets, are (from left to right):
USS Idaho (BB-42);
USS New Mexico (BB-40); and
USS Mississippi (BB-41).

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

Online Image: 98KB; 740 x 605 pixels

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2 October 2000