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80-CF-21343-2 USS Minneapolis (CA-36)

Photo #: 80-CF-21343-2  USS Minneapolis (CA-36)
Title: USS Minneapolis (CA-36)
Description: Firing her 8/55 main battery guns during battle practice, 29 March 1939. Taken from a floatplane of her embarked aviation unit, VCS-6. Note the stripes painted on the tops of her forward gun turrets. Photograph from Department of the Navy collections in the U.S. National Archives.
Catalog #: 80-CF-21343-2
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