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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 98457
USS Columbus (CA-74)
Off the coast of Spain, 12 July 1948.
Note that she still has her catapults and Curtiss SC "Seahawk"
seaplanes. These were landed and replaced with helicopters within
a year.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
Online Image: 108KB; 740 x 605 pixels
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