A port bow view of the Fletcher class destroyer USS CASSIN YOUNG (DD 793) moored at the Charlestown Memorial Naval Shipyard. The Cassin Young is a memorial ship maintained by the US Park Service and honors Captain (CAPT) Cassin Young, who earned the Medal of Honor during the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. He was later killed during a surface action with Japanese forces at the Battle of Guadalcanal
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Boston
State: Massachusetts (MA)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: Don S. Montgomery, USN (Ret.)
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
30/05/1987
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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