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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 96708-KN (color)

USS Wilkes-Barre (CL-103)

Color-tinted photograph of the ship at San Pedro, California, 31 January 1946, upon her return from wartime service in the western Pacific.
Note the homeward bound pennant held up by balloons.

Courtesy of Captain Edwin C. Finney, USN (Retired), 1991.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 82KB; 740 x 560 pixels

 

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14 July 2003