Photo #: NH 99110
USS Butler (DD-636)
Ready for launching, at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania,
on 12 February 1942.
Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of Rear
Admiral Adolphus E. Watson, USN, donated by Mrs. Alexander C.
Liggett and Mrs. J.S. Taylor.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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Photo #: NH 99111
USS Gherardi (DD-637), at left,
and
USS Butler (DD-636)
Ready for launching, at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania,
on 12 February 1942.
Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of Rear
Admiral Adolphus E. Watson, USN, donated by Mrs. Alexander C.
Liggett and Mrs. J.S. Taylor.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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Photo #: NH 99109
USS Gherardi (DD-637), at left,
and
USS Butler (DD-636)
Ready for launching, at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania,
on 12 February 1942.
Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of Rear
Admiral Adolphus E. Watson, USN, donated by Mrs. Alexander C.
Liggett and Mrs. J.S. Taylor.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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Photo #: NH 96397
USS Butler (DD-636), at right
Starts to slide down the ways during launching ceremonies at
the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, 12 February 1942.
USS Gherardi (DD-637), which was launched immediately
afterwards, is at left.
Courtesy of the U.S. Naval Institute Photo Collection, Annapolis,
Maryland. Collection of James C. Fahey.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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Photo #: NH 99112
USS Butler (DD-636)
Slides down the ways, during launching ceremonies at the Philadelphia
Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, on 12 February 1942.
USS Gherardi (DD-637), which was launched immediately
afterwards, is at left.
Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of Rear
Admiral Adolphus E. Watson, USN, donated by Mrs. Alexander C.
Liggett and Mrs. J.S. Taylor.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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Photo #: NH 99113
Mrs. John Wehle,
Sponsor of USS Butler (DD-636)
Holds the christening bottle, during the ship's launching ceremonies
at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, 12 February 1942.
She was daughter of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler,
USMC, in whose honor USS Butler was named.
Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation. Collection of Rear
Admiral Adolphus E. Watson, USN, donated by Mrs. Alexander C.
Liggett and Mrs. J.S. Taylor.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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