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19-N-17439 USS Yorktown (CV-5)

Photo #: 19-N-17439 USS Yorktown (CV-5)
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Title: USS Yorktown (CV-5)
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Description: 5-inch/38 caliber dual-purpose gun mounted on the ship's after starboard gun platform, looking aft and to starboard. Photographed at the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company on 27 September 1937. Note fuze-setting mechanism on the gun mount's left side and non-skid rubber matting on the deck. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.
Catalog #: 19-N-17439
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