#Allen M. Sumner Class

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The ship's band plays for the crew, as USS WALLACE L. LIND (DD-703) transfers mail to USS ESSEX (CV-9), in the Okinawa-Japan area.

Note: details of the destroyer's bridge and Mk. 37 gun director.

Photographed on March 26, 1945.

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: 80-G-373779

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USS ENGLISH (DD-696) steams in the China Sea with other units of the Third Fleet. USS HANCOCK (CV-19) and another destroyer are in the distance, at right. A Grumman F6F Hellcat banks nearby, preparing to land.

Photographed from USS NEW JERSEY (BB-62) by Lieutenant Commander Charles Fenno Jacobs, USNR in January 1945.

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: 80-G-470288, 80-G-470286

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USS Blue (DD-744) refueling from USS Bon Homme Richard (CVA-31) in heavy weather, in November 1962.

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USS LAFFEY (DD-724) on display at Municipal Dock on 11th St, Tacoma, Washington. "The destroyer survived an attack by six Japanese suicide planes and two bombs sixty miles off Japan. The hull and superstructure were grotesquely twisted by the impact."

Photographed on May 31, 1945.

Tacoma Public Library Online Digital Collections: 89\12365