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80-G-48564 USS Spence

Photo #: 80-G-48564 USS Spence
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Title: USS Spence
Description: (DD-512) Steaming in Iron Bottom Sound, off Guadalcanal, with her crew manning the rails, 23 March 1944. Photographed from USS Montpelier (CL-57). Savo Island is visible in the distance. Wartime censors retouched this image to delete the fire control radar antenna atop Spence's Mark 37 gun director. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
Catalog #: 80-G-48564
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