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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 103766

USS Tillman
(DD-641), left,
and
USS Beatty (DD-640), right

On the building ways while being prepared for their dual launching ceremonies, at the Charleston Navy Yard, South Carolina, December 1941.
The ships have not yet received a clean coat of paint. When launched on 20 December 1941, both had been painted in Camouflage Measure 12.

Courtesy of Donald M. McPherson, 1975.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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Image posted 27 April 2006
Minor caption correction 9 September 2006