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Photo #: NH 55037
USS California (BB-44)
Preparing to lift the sunken battleship's "basket"
mainmast, using a large floating crane, while she was under salvage
at Pearl Harbor on 12 February 1942.
Collection of Vice Admiral Homer N. Wallin, USN(Retired).
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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