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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-701369

USS Missouri (BB-63)


In the Miraflores Locks, Panama Canal, 13 October 1945, while en route from the Pacific to New York City to take part in Navy Day celebrations.
Note the close fit of the ship in the locks. The beam of battleships of this era was determined by Panama Canal lock dimensions.

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

Online Image: 127KB; 595 x 765 pixels

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5 January 1999