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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 97867

USS Laffey (DD-459)


Maneuvering alongside a cruiser (either Salt Lake City or Pensacola), with survivors of USS Wasp (CV-7) on board, probably at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides.
Wasp had been sunk by a Japanese submarine on 15 September 1942.
Cruiser in the right background is USS Juneau (CL-52).
Note the aircraft catapult on the cruiser from which the photo was taken.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

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11 February 2002