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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 41892

USS Princess Matoika
(ID # 2290)

A band of Bluejackets and Doughboys playing the "Marsellaise" on the ship's deck, as American troops, homeward bound from service in France, come aboard in the harbor of St. Nazaire, 20 December 1918.
Note the capstan and bitts in the foreground.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Image posted 14 November 2005