Photo #: 80-G-707175 USS United States (CVA-58) Workmen lay the ship's 15-ton keel plate and initial shell plate, in a construction dry dock at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company shipyard, Newport News, Virginia, 18 April 1949. The carrier was cancelled a few days later, on 23 April. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 104KB; 740 x 605 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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4 September 2001