Photo #: NH 98446
USS Oakland (CL-95)
Plan view, amidships looking aft, taken from a pierside crane
at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, on 27 October 1943.
Circles mark recent alterations to the ship.
Note the twin 40mm gun mount in the lower center of the view,
with its associated director and single 20mm guns nearby.
USS St. Louis (CL-49) is in the background.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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