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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 97004
USS Bairoko (CVE-115)
"Everybody turns to when it's reactivation time. Here storekeeper
striker D.W. Shore ... and Glenn Hobbs ... remove a dehumidifier
from the hangar deck of USS Bairoko prior to its actual
reactivation by San Francisco Naval Shipyard employees."
"Navy men like Seaman Hobbs and Storekeeper Shore were given
the task of helping in reassembling the ship that would be theirs
when the ship departed from San Francisco."
Quoted caption was released with this photo circa August 1950.
Bairoko recommissioned for Korean War service on 12 September
1950.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the "All Hands"
collection at the Naval Historical Center.
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1 October 1999