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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data
Photo #: NH 103939
USS Mount Vernon (ID # 4508)
Halftone reproduction of a photograph showing a destroyer laying
a smoke screen around Mount Vernon, after she was torpedoed
by German Submarine U-82 on 5 September 1918.
Note the destroyer's "dazzle" camouflage.
This image was published in 1918-1919 as one of ten photographs
in a "Souvenir Folder" of views concerning the ship
and her 5 September 1918 torpedoing.
Donation of Dr. Mark Kulikowski, 2006.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Image posted 30 July 2006