An aerial starboard quarter view of the battleship WISCONSIN (BB-64) being maneuvered by a fleet of commercial tug boats as they prepare to move the 45,000 ton giant up the Elizabeth River to ready reserve storage at the Norfolk Naval shipyard at Portsmouth. BB-64 was towed down from the Philadelphia Naval Base when that facility was closed
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Base: Hampton Roadstead
State: Virginia (VA)
Country: United States Of America (USA)
Scene Camera Operator: Robert J. Sitar
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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Date
01/10/1996
Location
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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