Photo #: NH 77892
USS Chaumont (AP-5)
Mooring in the river at Shanghai, China, on 19 September 1937
with men of the 6th Regiment, U. S. Marine Corps, on deck.
Crewmen of the Italian cruiser Raimondo Montecuccoli,
moored just astern, are observing the maneuver. Note the Italian
cruiser's truncated conical tower forward superstructure and
the jack on her bow.
Courtesy of Rear Admiral J. P. Walker, USN (Ret.), 1973.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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