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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

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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25 March 2003