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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 82031

USS Portland (CA-33)


View looking aft from the foredeck while at sea in 1944.
Note the ship's two forward 8"/55 gun turrets and the arrangement of her forward superstructure. A Mk.33 gun director with Mk.28 fire control radar is atop the pilothouse. Director atop the tripod foremast is a Mk.34, with Mk.8 fire control radar. The large radar antenna at the foremast peak is a SK.

Courtesy of Vice Admiral T.G.W. Settle, USN (Retired), 1975.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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21 January 2002