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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 92692

USS Aries
(AK-51)

Off the Boston Navy Yard, Massachusetts, on 26 May 1942 just after conversion.
Her main armament consists of a single 4"/50 gun aft and she is manned by a civilian crew.

Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Institute, collection of James C. Fahey. This photograph is also in the U.S. National Archives under the number 19-N-32701.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Image posted 19 January 2008