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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-10535

USS Memphis (CL-13)


View on deck, looking aft from the bow while the ship was underway in the South Atlantic, circa 1941-1942.
Note 6"/53 guns in her forward turret and casemate mountings, 3"/50 anti-aircraft gun behind the turret, rangefinders and other fire control equipment on the foremast.
Crewmen are wearing the short "Whites" popular in the tropics.

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

Online Image: 123KB; 585 x 765 pixels

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2 September 2002