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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 103823

USS Thornton
(AVD-11)

Close up view of the ship's starboard side, amidships, showing damage received in a 5 April 1945 collision with USS Ashtabula (AO-51) and USS Escalante (AO-70).
Photograph was taken in the Kerama Retto, Ryukyu Islands and is dated 9 April 1945.

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

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Image posted 2 June 2006
Caption corrected 21 September 2006