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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-61600

MS Pennsylvania Sun

(U.S. Merchant Tanker, 1938)

The Carpenter and a Sailor from the salvage ship USS Willett (ARS-12) use "Foamite" to fight oil fires on the Pennsylvania Sun, during salvage efforts on 16 July 1942. She had been torpedoed by the German Submarine U-571 about 125 miles west of Key West, Florida, on the previous day.
Taken by a Naval Air Station, Key West, photographer.
Pennsylvania Sun was saved and returned to service.

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

Online Image: 68KB; 595 x 765 pixels

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11 April 2000