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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 19-N-73093

USS Missouri (BB-63)


Christening champagne bottle, silver bottle cover and wooden case, prepared for the ship's launching, which took place at the New York Navy Yard on 29 January 1944.

Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

Online Image: 64KB; 740 x 605 pixels

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22 January 1999