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80-G-49571 Panama Canal

Panama Canal
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Title: Panama Canal
Caption: 124' in width, as against 110' spar of the Panama Canal, the 18,000 ton capacity Navy floating drydock was passed from one Ocean to another by a plan careening the dock on its beam end towing it through. The plan conserved and directed by Naval Civil Eng. Corps and carried out by CB's. The dock is towed through Culebra Cut in the Canal. 25 June 1945.
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Catalog #: 80-G-49571
Copyright Owner: National Archives
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Original Date: Mon, Jun 25, 1945
After this Year: 1939
Before this Year: 1945
Original Medium: BW Photo
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