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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-K-424 (Color)

USS Buchanan (DD-484)

Alongside USS Wasp (CV-7) to refuel, while en route to the Guadalcanal-Tulagi invasion area, 3 August 1942.
Note her camouflage scheme, and the heavy line rigged between the two ships.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 95KB; 740 x 605 pixels

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13 November 2001