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Photo #: NH 98252
USS Pittsburgh (CA-72)
Lifting the starboard anchor from the cruiser's detached and
capsized bow, during salvage operations at Guam, circa June 1945.
The bow had broken away from the ship in a typhoon on 5 June.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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