Mar 1, 2021
USS TEXAS (BB-35), USS ROWAN (DD-405), USS STACK (DD-406) and USS RANGER (CV-4) docked at Norfolk Naval Shipyard.
Note: the enclosed 5"/38 caliber guns mounts on the flatbed rail cars next to the destroyers. T
Photographed by George Stock of LIFE Magazine. Identify by Peter Deforest. Most likely photographed on August 9, 1941.
LIFE Magazine Archives: 116626417, 116626422, 116626456
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Edit: date is based on the finding of Travis Davis, VP of the Battleship Texas Foundation.
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