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Photo #: NH 97771
USS Buchanan (DD-484)
In Kossol Passage, Palau, on 8 October 1944, after having completed
the rescue of eight of eleven crewmen of a PBM patrol seaplane
that had suffered a forced landing and crack-up at sea.
Photographed by CPhoM D.S. Fruchey, of USS Chandeleur
(AV-10).
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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