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19-N-29230 USS Blue (DD-387) USS Ralph Talbot (DD-390)

Photo #: 19-N-29230 USS Blue (DD-387) USS Ralph Talbot (DD-390)
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Title: USS Blue (DD-387) USS Ralph Talbot (DD-390)
Description: Photo #: 19-N-29230 USS Blue (DD-387) outboard, and USS Ralph Talbot (DD-390) inboard At the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 11 April 1942. Among the details visible are: newly-installed 20mm guns; blowers mounted on deck aft of # 2 5/38 gun; Mk. 33 gun directors atop pilothouse; radio-direction finding antennas on pilothouse face; and quadruple torpedo tubes amidships. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.
Catalog #: 19-N-29230
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