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.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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