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.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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