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| Date: | 05 19 1919 |
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| Description: | The crew of NC-4 during their interim stop in the Azores: Left to right: Lt. Elmer Stone, Eugene Rhoades (machinists mate), Lt. Walter Hinton, Ensign H.C. ... |
| Date: | 08 1945 |
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| Description: | The medal ceremony for the crew of the Enola Gay held on Tinian Island after they dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The Enola Gay, B-29... |
| Date: | 08 1945 |
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| Description: | The medal ceremony for the crew of the Enola Gay, the B-29 Super Fortress that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. This photograph was taken by Al... |
| Date: | 04 1917 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of Navy recruits at Newport, boarding a train destined for the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The printed caption indicates that they had had only eight... |
| Date: | 1978 |
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| Description: | Jimmy Carter, 39th President of the United States (1977-1981), was born in Plains, Georgia on October 1, 1924. After serving as an officer in the Navy, he... |
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| Description: | "Building rafts, or pontoons, upon which to mount huge mortars — for use on the river. Scene at St. Louis." Men are building on a pontoon with lumber. Ther... |
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| Description: | A lithograph of 100 Union Army and Navy officers and Abraham Lincoln. |
| Date: | 12 07 1941 |
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| Description: | Sailors clear the stern of the battleship USS West Virginia in berth F-6 at Pearl Harbor, most likely after it was hit by at least a few of the 7 to... |
| Date: | 12 07 1941 |
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| Description: | The remains of the USS Cassin and the USS Downes floating in front of the USS Pennsylvania in dock at Pearl Harbor. On the left is th... |
| Date: | 12 07 1941 |
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| Description: | Sailors in a motor launch attempt a rescue of survivors from the water alongside the sunken battleship USS West Virginia during or shortly after the... |
| Date: | 1855 |
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| Description: | Engraved portrait of Matthew Fontaine Maury (1806-1873) American astronomer, historian, oceanographer, meteorologist, cartographer, author, geologist, and ... |
| Date: | 11 1971 |
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| Description: | Cover of "Navy Times Are Changin,'" an underground newspaper, featuring a cartoon of three men, at least one in navy uniform, surrounded by pigs pointing f... |
| Date: | 06 21 1947 |
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| Description: | USS Wisconsin conducting a training cruise fueling at sea. |
| Date: | 1943 |
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| Description: | USS Wisconsin in drydock during construction. A group of men are standing on scaffolding at the base of the ship. |
| Date: | 1887 |
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| Description: | "Kearsarge and Alabama: Hauling Down the Flag." A color lithograph published by L. Prang & Co. of Boston. |
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| Description: | Sinking of the "Albemarle." Lieut. Cushing (?) torpedoing the ALBEMARLE. |
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| Description: | Decorative lithograph with hundreds of prisoners' names, as well as scenes from the prison motifs as four insets, one on each corner: Libby Prison; Belle I... |
| Date: | 1913 |
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| Description: | A composite image of Oliver Hazard Perry (8/23/1785 – 8/23/1819) a U.S. Naval Officer and "hero of the Battle of Lake Erie," with his birthplace in South K... |
| Date: | 1869 |
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| Description: | Vignetted carte-de-visite portrait of Captain George Henry Preble. Starting in 1861 Preble commanded the gunboat Katahdin, serving with Rear Admiral... |
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| Description: | Engraved quarter-length carte-de-visite portrait of Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy from 1861-1869. |
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