Photo #: NH 97780
USS Boise (CL-47)
Seen from the island of USS Yorktown (CV-10) on 6 May
1943.
A Grumman F6F-3 "Hellcat" fighter is parked on the
carrier's deck-edge elevator, in the foreground.
Note Boise's fresh Measure 22 camouflage, and her fifteen
6"/47 guns trained on her port quarter at high elevation.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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