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NH 69004 USS Farragut (DD-300)

Photo #: NH 69004 USS Farragut (DD-300)
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Title: USS Farragut (DD-300)
Description: Photographed at the time of a fatal gun accident on board, January 1926. The photograph's original caption (which does not completely fit the image) reads: One Sailor was killed and seven other members of the forward four-inch gun crew received minor injuries as a result of the premature explosion of the gun during battle torpedo practice off Point Loma, California, January 1926. The gun is in the center, foreground. Courtesy of the San Francisco Maritime Museum, San Francisco, California, 1969. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 69004
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