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80-G-55409: USS Buck (DD-420), 1943

80-G-55409: USS Buck (DD-420), 1943. Loading and emptying 5” shells on the deck the destroyer the morning after an attack on an Italian submarine, near Licata, Sicily. Photograph received November 11, 1943. Buck was sunk German submarine U-616 on October 9, 1943. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2015/4/28).
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Caption: USS Buck (DD-420), 1943. Loading and emptying 5” shells on the deck the destroyer the morning after an attack on an Italian submarine, near Licata, Sicily. Photograph received November 11, 1943. Buck was sunk German submarine U-616 on October 9, 1943. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2015/4/28).
Accession #: 80-G-55409
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