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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 64490

Salvage of USS West Virginia (BB-48), 1942-43


Captain Homer N. Wallin (left), Salvage Officer, and Lieutenant Commander W. White, Commanding Officer of USS West Virginia, on board the ship while she was under salvage at Pearl Harbor in 1942.
They are wearing the "tank" suit coveralls and knee-length rubber boots used by Pearl Harbor salvage team members when engaged in particularly dirty work.

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

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28 November 2000