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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 98422

USS Astoria (CL-90)


Plan view aft, taken at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 21 October 1944.
Note 40mm quad gun mount at left, with battle helmets and a life raft mounted on the bulkhead beyond, and 5"/38 twin gun mount in left center.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

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25 March 2003