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SC 209538 USS Augusta (CA-31)

Photo #: SC 209538 USS Augusta (CA-31)
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Title: USS Augusta (CA-31)
Description: Steaming toward Antwerp, Belgium, 15 July 1945, as she carried President Harry S. Truman on his way to take part in the Potsdam conference. Photographed from USS Philadelphia (CL-41), which escorted Augusta during the trip. The port wing of one of Philadelphia's OS2U floatplanes is at left. Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives.
Catalog #: SC 209538
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