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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 84009

Salvage of USS California (BB-44), 1942


View from off the ship's port quarter, 4 April 1942, during refloating operations. Note the large wooden cofferdam erected around her quarterdeck.
The island of USS Enterprise (CV-6) is visible in the left distance.

Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of The Honorable James V. Forrestal.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Historical Center.

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27 November 2000