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Photo #: 80-G-36088

Guadalcanal Campaign, 1942-43


USS South Dakota (BB-57) and two destroyers alongside USS Prometheus (AR-3) for repairs, probably at Noumea, New Caledonia, in November 1942.
The inboard destroyer, with the distorted bow, is probably USS Mahan (DD-364), which was damaged in a collision with South Dakota at the close of the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands on 27 October 1942.
South Dakota received damage in both that battle and in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal on 15 November 1942.
The other destroyer may be USS Lamson (DD-367).

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

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Rescanned and recaptioned 24 March 2000