DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
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Photo #: NH 75594
USS Houston (CL-81)
Being prepared for launching, at the Newport News Shipbuilding
and Dry Dock Company shipyard, Newport News, Virginia, 16 June
1943. She was launched on 19 June.
Courtesy of James Russell, 1972.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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