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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

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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19 November 2001