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Photo #: NH 42048

Rear Admiral Robert A. Theobald, USN,

Commandant, First Naval District; and
Mrs. Frank Warren, wife of the Mayor of Topeka, Kansas, and Sponsor of USS Topeka (CL-67)

At launching ceremonies for USS Topeka, at the Bethlehem Steel Company shipyard, Quincy, Massachusetts, 19 August 1944. Mrs. Warren is holding the christening champagne bottle.

Courtesy of the Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Kansas, 1967.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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6 December 2002