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Photo #: NH 93493

Mrs. Arthur A. Osburn, Jr.
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Sponsor of USS Vincennes (CL-64)

Poses with the christening bottle, just before Vincennes was launched, at the Bethlehem Steel Company's Fore River Plant, Quincy, Massachusetts, 17 July 1943.
As Miss Harriet Virginia Kimmell, Daughter of the Mayor of Vincennes, Indiana, she had also sponsored the previous USS Vincennes (CA-44), launched on 21 May 1936.

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

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11 November 2002