Photo #: NH 98420
USS Astoria (CL-90)
Plan view amidships, looking forward, taken at the Mare Island
Navy Yard, California, 21 October 1944.
Note life rafts stowed between the ship's smokestacks, and antennas
for SK-1 and SG radars atop her foremast.
A tractor-trailer "bus" is passing by ashore, to the
left of Astoria's pilothouse.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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