Photo #: NH 104567
USS Burns (DM-11, formerly DD-171)
Underway with mines on deck, circa 1922-1924.
Note that Burns is wearing the mine force insignia with
her destroyer bow number ("171").
Photo from the 1909-1924 album of Vice Admiral Olaf M. Hustvedt,
USN (Retired), who was Burns' Commanding Officer at the
time photograph was taken. Courtesy of Rick Hauck, 2006.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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