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Photo #: 19-N-88279

USS Shaw (DD-373)


Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 5 August 1945, after her final overhaul. She has lost her torpedo tubes, one 5"/38 gun mount and the forward center 20mm gun mount and received two twin and two quad 40mm gun mounts in their place, as part of the Navy's response to the "Kamikaze" threat.

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

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2 November 2000