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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 97254
USS Massachusetts (BB-59)
Entering Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, after leaving the Fore
River Shipyard at Quincy, 12 May 1942.
Photographed from an altitude of approximately 400 feet.
Note harbor defense net system at top, with a Net Tender (AN)
in attendance.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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