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Photo #: NH 81734

Asiatic Fleet Change of Command, 25 July 1939


Admiral Thomas C. Hart, incoming Commander in Chief Asiatic Fleet (left center), his predecessor, Admiral Harry E. Yarnell (right center), and members of their staffs salute as Yarnell's flag is taken down and Hart's is raised, during ceremonies on board USS Augusta (CA-31) off Shanghai, China.
Black armbands are worn in mourning for the late Secretary of the Navy, Claude A. Swanson, who had died on 3 March 1939.

Courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Yarnell, 1975.

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8 April 2002