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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 105801

USS LST-551

(Renamed Chesterfield County in 1955)

Unloading troops and mechanized equipment on "Red Beach", on "D-Day" of the 1949 Caribbean maneuvers, 2 March 1949.

Photograph from the Naval Historical Foundation's Washington Navy Yard Collection.

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

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Image posted 14 May 2008