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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-707176

USS United States (CVA-58)


Ship's keel plate being laid 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: 124KB; 740 x 605 pixels

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4 September 2001