File:USS Boise (CL-47) at sea in May 1943.jpg

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Description The U.S. Navy light cruiser USS Boise (CL-47) seen from the island of the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10) on 6 May 1943. A Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat fighter is parked on the carrier's deck-edge elevator, in the foreground. Note Boise's fresh Measure 22 camouflage, and her fifteen 152 mm/47 guns trained on her port quarter at high elevation. The photo was taken off Norfolk, Virginia area (USA).
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Source Official U.S. Navy photo NH 97780 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command
Author U.S. Navy

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