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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 68949

Rear Admiral Alan G. Kirk, USN
(seated, center),
Commander Amphibious Force, Atlantic Fleet

With his staff on board USS Ancon (AGC-4), "enroute to Sicily landings" (quoted from the original photo caption).
Photo is dated 13 August 1943, a month after the invasion of Sicily.

Courtesy of Colonel Robert L. Clifford, USAR (Retired), 1969.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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10 March 2004