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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 103706

USS Sampson
(DD-394)

Underway in the Gulf of Panama, 14 March 1943.
Halftone reproduction, published by the Division of Naval Intelligence in June 1943 for ship recognition purposes.
Sampson is painted in the very pale pattern of Measure 16 (Thayer system) camouflage, which is faintly visible in this view.

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

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Image posted 17 April 2006