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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 64483

USS California (BB-44)


Just after she was placed in the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard's Drydock # Two, 9 April 1942. California had been sunk as a result of the 7 December 1941 Japanese air raid and was refloated on 24 March 1942.
Note the mud on the ship's propeller shafts and struts and on the drydock floor below them.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

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15 November 2000