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80-G-464078 USS AQUILA (AK-47)

USS AQUILA (AK-47)
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Title: USS AQUILA (AK-47)
Caption: Seamen at their battle stations, during a drill while their ship was en route to Iceland with a North Atlantic convoy, December 1941. Men are dressed in cold weather clothing, with life jackets. Cleaver held by man at left is to cut away liferafts when abandoning ship. Men are L-R: George Mela, Willis Hudson, and Leon Lance.
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Catalog #: 80-G-464078
Copyright Owner: National Archives
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After this Year: 1940
Before this Year: 1949
Original Medium: BW photograph
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