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Photo #: 26-G-08-08-34(6)N

USCGC Onondaga
(later WPG-79)

Launching, at the Defoe shipyard, Bay City, Michigan, on 2 August 1934.
Note the sideways launching technique used by this shipyard.

Photograph from the U.S. Coast Guard Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

Online Image: 52KB; 740 x 585 pixels

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28 November 2004