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80-G-K-14015 USS Franklin (CV-13)

Photo #: 80-G-K-14015 USS Franklin (CV-13)
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Title: USS Franklin (CV-13)
Description: The ship is floated out of her building dock immediately after christening, at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Drydock Company shipyard, Newport News, Virginia, on 14 October 1943. Note WAVES officers in the foreground. The WAVES' Director, Lieutenant Commander Mildred H. McAfee, USNR, was Franklin's sponsor. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
Catalog #: 80-G-K-14015
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