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 Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Image posted 27 September 2010