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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-405490

USS Pittsburgh (CA-4)


The decommissioned ship being used in bomb tests, 8 October 1931.
This photograph shows the explosion of the first 500-pound bomb in the test series.

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

Online Image: 88KB; 740 x 615 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

 

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23 December 2002