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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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17 February 2000