Photo #: 80-G-K-16472 (Color) USS Drayton (DD-366) Underway at sea, off the U.S. West Coast, circa October 1941. Photographed from a Navy SNJ aircraft, whose starboard wing is in the foreground. Note Drayton's camouflage, which was the source of her contemporary nickname "The Blue Beetle". Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 61KB; 740 x 510 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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21 June 2004