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80-G-21925 USS Memphis (CL-13)

Photo #: 80-G-21925 USS Memphis (CL-13)
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Title: USS Memphis (CL-13)
Description: A Curtiss SOC Seagull scout-observation aircraft is lowered onto the cruiser's starboard catapult, after recovery, circa early 1942. Note crewmen wearing tropical white uniforms, searchlights alongside smokestacks, 3/50 anti-aircraft guns in front of the catapult and .50 caliber machine guns behind it. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
Catalog #: 80-G-21925
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