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NH 55854 Le Triomphant

Photo #: NH 55854 Le Triomphant
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Title: Le Triomphant
Description: (French Destroyer, 1934) Moored off San Diego, California, circa 26 April 1941. Photographed from a USS Saratoga (CV-3) airplane from an altitude of 700 feet, using an F-48 camera with a 6 3/8 inch focal length. Note the British type 4-inch anti-aircraft gun (at the rear of the after deck house) and light anti-aircraft machine guns added while Le Triomphant was in British hands during 1940. Among the latter is a French Hotchkiss 13.2mm quad atop the after superstructure, just forward of the 4-inch gun. False bow wave camouflage is painted on her hull side, forward, to confuse estimates of the ship's speed. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 55854
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