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USS Astoria (CL-90) Underway at sea, 22 July 1944, while en
route to the Philadelphia Navy Yard for post-shakedown overhaul. Her
camouflage is Measure 33, Design 24d.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical
Center #NH 98413.
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USS Astoria (CL-90) Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California,
21 October 1944. Her camouflage is Measure 33, Design 24d.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical
Center #NH 98414.
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USS Astoria (CL-90) Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California,
21 October 1944.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical
Center #NH 98415.
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USS Astoria (CL-90) Off the Mare Island Navy Yard, California,
21 October 1944. She carries two 0S2U "Kingfisher" floatplanes on her
catapults.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical
Center #NH 98416.
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USS Astoria (CL-90) Bow view, taken off the Mare Island Navy
Yard, California, 21 October 1944.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical
Center #NH 98417.
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USS Astoria (CL-90) Stern view, taken off the Mare Island Navy
Yard, California, 21 October 1944. She carries two 0S2U "Kingfisher"
floatplanes on her catapults.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical
Center #NH 98418.
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USS Astoria (CL-90) Plan view, forward, taken at the Mare Island
Navy Yard, California, 21 October 1944. Note railway cars full of scrap
in the foreground, and the dredge YM-12 (bearing the name "Endicott"
on a board atop her pilothouse) at left.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical
Center #NH 98419.
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USS Astoria (CL-90) Plan view amidships, looking forward, taken
at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 21 October 1944. Note life
rafts stowed between the ship's smokestacks, and antennas for SK-1 and
SG radars atop her foremast. A tractor-trailer "bus" is passing by ashore,
to the left of Astoria's pilothouse.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical
Center #NH 98420.
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USS Astoria (CL-90) Plan view amidships, looking aft, taken
at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 21 October 1944. Note the
searchlights mounted on the ship's after smokestack.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical
Center #NH 98421.
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USS Astoria (CL-90) Plan view aft, taken at the Mare Island
Navy Yard, California, 21 October 1944. Note 40mm quad gun mount at
left, with battle helmets and a life raft mounted on the bulkhead beyond,
and 5"/38 twin gun mount in left center.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical
Center #NH 98422.
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USS Astoria (CL-90) Underway, circa 1947, probably while leaving
San Diego, California.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical
Center #NH 98423.
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