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NH 99281 USS Markab

Photo #: NH 99281 USS Markab
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Title: USS Markab
Description: (AD-21) In a Pacific anchorage, with five destroyers alongside, circa 1944 or early 1945. The destroyer closest to Markab is of the round bridge Fletcher class, otherwise unidentified. The others are, from center to right: USS Longshaw (DD-559); USS Preston (DD-795); USS Porterfield (DD-682); and USS Cassin Young (DD-793). Wartime censors have retouched the photograph to remove all radar antennas. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval History and Heritage Command.
Catalog #: NH 99281
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