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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-33381

USS Shaw (DD-373)


Transferring survivors of USS Porter (DD-356) between Shaw and USS South Dakota (BB-57), on 28 October 1942. Porter had been torpedoed and sunk two days earlier, during the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands.
Photographed from on board the South Dakota, one of whose 40mm quad gun mounts, covered with canvas, is in the foreground.

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

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2 November 2000