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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-K-5987 (Color)

Loss of USS Indianapolis, July 1945


USS Tranquillity (AH-14) arrives at Guam, carrying survivors of USS Indianapolis (CA-35), 8 August 1945.
The bow of USS Steele (DE-8) is in the foreground.

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

Online Image: 81KB; 740 x 605 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

Note on color quality:
The original ANSCO transparency has degraded color, with purples and greens predominating. This has been somewhat corrected in this reproduction.

 

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31 December 1998