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80-G-709243 Operation "Passage to Freedom", 1954-1955

Photo #: 80-G-709243 Operation "Passage to Freedom", 1954-1955
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Title: Operation "Passage to Freedom", 1954-1955
Description: Photo #: 80-G-709243 Operation Passage to Freedom, 1954-1955 Navy Chaplain Lieutenant Francis J. Fitzpatrick assists Vietnamese refugees on board USS Bayfield (APA-33), circa September 1954. He acted as their intrepreter during their voyage to Saigon, Indochina, from Haiphong. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
Catalog #: 80-G-709243
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