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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-48564

USS Spence
(DD-512)

Steaming in Iron Bottom Sound, off Guadalcanal, with her crew manning the rails, 23 March 1944.
Photographed from USS Montpelier (CL-57).
Savo Island is visible in the distance.
Wartime censors retouched this image to delete the fire control radar antenna atop Spence's Mark 37 gun director.

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

Online Image: 74KB; 740 x 610 pixels

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22 January 2004