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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-215084

USS Ancon (AGC-4)


Scene in the Joint Operations Room on 3 July 1943 shortly before the invasion of Sicily.
Command personnel are manning the stations on the raised platform. The horizontal plot in the foreground may be the air plot table. Note the radar repeater at the left and the extensive use of sound powered phones.

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

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16 March 2004