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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 77698
Yura (Japanese Light Cruiser, 1923)
Off Shanghai, China, on 18 August 1937, during hostilities between
Japan and China.
Note rolled hammocks placed around her forward superstructure
as protection against bomb and shell splinters.
Courtesy Vice Admiral Morton L. Deyo, USN (Retired), 1973.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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