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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-82331

Salerno invasion, September 1943


British Gen. J. L. Hawksworth and RADM Richard L. Conolly, USN, aboard USS Biscayne (AVP-11) on 6 September 1943, three days before the Salerno landings.
Note the words "LEAD THE TARGET" stencilled on the 20mm gun shield.

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

Online Image: 77KB; 740 x 550 pixels

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6 August 2000