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Photo #: NH 98178

USS Decatur (DD-936)


Receives serious topside damage in a collision with USS Lake Champlain (CVS-39), after suffering a steering casualty and running under the carrier's bow overhang, 6 May 1964.
Taken from the carrier's bridge. Note S-2 aircraft parked forward, and Decatur's mainmast breaking away.
Halftone photograph copied from Decatur's 1968 Cruise Book, page 1. The book is in the Collections of the Navy Department Library.

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12 November 2002