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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-52931

USS Strong (DD-467)


Highlines mail to USS Honolulu (CL-48) during operations in the Solomon Islands area, circa early July 1943.
Strong was torpedoed and sunk off New Georgia on 5 July 1943.
Note the sign painted on Honolulu's starboard catapult: "No Smoking Abaft This Sign".

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

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21 February 2002