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NH 68399-KN Insignia: USS Decatur (DD-936)

Photo #: NH 68399-KN Insignia: USS Decatur (DD-936)
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Title: Insignia: USS Decatur (DD-936)
Description: Insignia: USS Decatur (DD-936) Cloth jacket patch featuring the ship's emblem, as used in 1960. Its motto, Our Country May She Ever Be Right, is based on Commodore Stephen Decatur's April 1816 toast: Our County! In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong. Courtesy of Captain G.F. Swainson, USN, 1969. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 68399-KN
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