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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 78646

USS General John Pope
(AP-110)

In San Francisco Bay in late 1945 or early 1946, at the end of a Magic Carpet voyage from the western Pacific. Thousands of homeward-bound troops are on deck.
Note that her lifeboats and Welin boat davits, which had been removed in September 1943, have been reinstalled.

Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1974.

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Image posted 10 January 2007