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NH 98178 USS Decatur (DD-936)

Photo #: NH 98178 USS Decatur (DD-936)
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Title: USS Decatur (DD-936)
Description: Receives serious topside damage in a collision with USS Lake Champlain (CVS-39), after suffering a steering casualty and running under the carrier's bow overhang, 6 May 1964. Taken from the carrier's bridge. Note S-2 aircraft parked forward, and Decatur's mainmast breaking away. Halftone photograph copied from Decatur's 1968 Cruise Book, page 1. The book is in the Collections of the Navy Department Library. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 98178
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