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Photo #: 80-G-644528

Operation "Passage to Freedom", 1954


A young Vietnamese refugee lends a helping hand to a sailor chipping paint on board USS Bayfield (APA-33), while enroute from Haiphong to Saigon, Indochina, 7 September 1954.
Note aviators' oxygen bottle at left.

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

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Image posted 18 December 1998
Rescanned and reposted 8 April 2004