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"USS HOUSTON (CA-30) at Tjilatjap, Java, seen from the light cruiser USS MARBLEHEAD (CL-12), which was passing close aboard. HOUSTON's colours are half-masted pending return of her funeral party, ashore for burial of men lost when a bomb hit near her after 20.3 cm gun turret two days earlier during a Japanese air attack in Bangka Strait. The disabled turret is visible in the center of the view, being trained to port."

Photographed on February 6, 1942.

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: NH 82480

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Artist: 銀SilveRoid

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“USS Marblehead (CL-12). Bow-on view, at New York Navy Yard, N.Y., May 1942 while there for repairs and refit after returning from the southwest Pacific theater. Her bow was slightly bent (8" to starboard) in a collision with the Dutch harbor tug Kraus at Tjilatjap, Java, on 13 February 1942. Note crew painting ship (top); also anchors.”

(NHHC: 80-G-13822)

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USS FRANKLIN (CV-13) steaming past the Statue of Liberty and USS MARBLEHEAD (CL-12) as she heads to the New York Navy Yard. She is there to repair the battle damage she received off Japan on March 19.

Note: MARBLEHEAD is painted in Camouflage Measure 22.

Photographed on April 28, 1945.

NARA: 78229

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: 80-G-K-4776, 80-G-K-4777