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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: USA C-548 (Color)

President Franklin D. Roosevelt (right)

Meets with Eqyptian King Farouk, on board USS Quincy (CA-71) in the Great Bitter Lake, Egypt, on 13 February 1945, following the Yalta Conference.
View looks aft along the cruiser's port side from atop her second eight-inch gun turret. Note 5"/38 twin gun mounts, 20mm guns and details of the ship's open bridge.

Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

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7 November 2000