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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-58800

Destroyer Squadron Twenty-One


Three of the squadron's ships underway in the Solomon Islands, 15 August 1943. The ships are (from front to rear): USS O'Bannon (DD-450), USS Chevalier (DD-451) and USS Taylor (DD-468).
Photographed from USS Nicholas (DD-449), while the ships were enroute to the landings at Vella Lavella, which took place on the same day.

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

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21 May 2002