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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 53892

USS George Washington
(ID # 3018)

Leaving New York in March 1919 with President Woodrow Wilson on board, during his second trip to France.
Photographed from an escorting destroyer, with a blimp overhead.
Note the destroyer's after torpedo tubes and wake. Despite being underway, she is flying her National Ensign from the stern flagstaff.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Image posted 12 October 2004