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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-373777

USS Essex (CV-9)


Receiving provisions via highline from USS Mercury (AK-42) on 27 April 1945, while operating off Okinawa.
Essex crewmen in the foreground are stacking bags of flour.
Note man on Mercury's forward hatch, directing the hoisting of another load from her hold.

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

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22 May 2000