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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 96397

USS Butler
(DD-636), at right

Starts to slide down the ways during launching ceremonies at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, 12 February 1942.
USS Gherardi (DD-637), which was launched immediately afterwards, is at left.

Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Institute Photo Collection, Annapolis, Maryland. Collection of James C. Fahey.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

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18 May 2004