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NH 96331 USS Saturn

Photo #: NH 96331 USS Saturn
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Title: USS Saturn
Description: (AF-40) Firemen examine debris in the ship's Number Three Hold, after a fire on board had killed fifteen workmen while the ship was undergoing conversion to a refrigerator ship at the Norfolk Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, on 27 April 1944. Copied from typescript History of the Norfolk Navy Yard in World War II, page 169. The original volume is in the collections of the Navy Department Library. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 96331
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