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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-266487

USS Ahrens
(DE-575)

Underway in the Atlantic on 13 May 1944, seen from USS Bogue (CVE-9).
Photographer: F.B. Larrick of USS Bogue.
Note the High Frequency Direction Finder (HF/DF) antenna mounted on Ahrens's foremast peak.
Sixteen days after this photograph was taken, on 29 May 1944, Ahrens and USS Eugene E. Elmore (DE-686) sank the German submarine U-549 northwest of the Canary Islands.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 102 KB; 900 x 765 pixels

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    Image posted 27 September 2010