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19-N-32465 USS Chester

Photo #: 19-N-32465 USS Chester
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Title: USS Chester
Description: (CA-27) View of the ship's forward smokestack and superstructure, taken from off her starboard side looking forward, at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 6 August 1942. Circles drawn on the image mark recent alterations. Note the antenna for Chester's CXAM radar atop her foremast. See Photo #s 19-N-32465-A and 19-N-32465-B for views emphasizing that antenna. Photograph from the Bureau of Ships Collection in the U.S. National Archives.
Catalog #: 19-N-32465
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