Photo #: NH 99281
USS Markab (AD-21)
In a Pacific anchorage, with five destroyers alongside, circa
1944 or early 1945.
The destroyer closest to Markab is of the "round
bridge" Fletcher class, otherwise unidentified. The
others are, from center to right:
USS Longshaw (DD-559);
USS Preston (DD-795);
USS Porterfield (DD-682); and
USS Cassin Young (DD-793).
Wartime censors have retouched the photograph to remove all radar
antennas.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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