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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 65604
USS Mount Hood (AE-11)
Smoke cloud expanding, just after she exploded in Seeadler Harbor,
Manus, Admiralty Islands, 10 November 1944.
Photographed by a photographer of the 57th Construction Battalion,
who had set up his camera to take pictures of the Battalion's
camp.
Collection of Commander Lester B. Marx.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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