24,861 items in this album on 1,244 pages.
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| USS Saratoga (foreground) arriving at Philadelphia Navy Yard, Pennsylvania, United States, 1 Oct 1980; note USS Shangri-La (background); seen in Feb 1981 edition of US Navy publication All Hands | Boston Towing tugboat Mars towing USS Cassin Young from Dry Dock 1 of Charlestown Navy Yard, Massachusetts, United States, May 1981 |
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| USS Cassin Young being dedicated as a memorial ship, Pier 1 East, Charlestown Navy Yard, Massachusetts, United States, 27 Jun 1981 | Stern view of battleship New Jersey in drydock while undergoing refitting for reactivation, Naval Shipyard, Long Beach, California, United States, 5 Feb 1982 |
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| Inactivated US Navy battleships Iowa and Wisconsin docked at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 26 Feb 1982 | Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sinking after being torpedoed by HMS Conqueror, off Falkland Islands, 2 May 1982 |
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| Mrs. Nancy Reagan laying flowers at the Omaha Beach Memorial Cemetery, Normandy, France, 11 Jun 1982 | US President Ronald Reagan (extreme right of photo) speaking at USS New Jersey's recommissioning ceremony, Long Beach, California, United States, 28 Dec 1982 |
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| USS Iowa being pushed, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States, 23 Jan 1983; note the Superdome arena in background | USS New Jersey entering Manila Bay, Philippine Islands, 3 Jul 1983; note Fort Drum (El Fraile Island, 'the concrete battleship') in foreground, Corregidor and Bataan in background |
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| USS Iowa undergoing modernization at Pascagoula, Mississippi, United States, 23 Sep 1983 | Guided missile cruiser Albany, landing craft repair ship Indira, a Haskell-class attack transport, and submarine Blenny at the St. Helena Annex of Norfolk Naval Shipyard, Virginia, United States, 1 Nov 1983 |
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| US First Lady Nancy Reagan, US President Ronald Reagan, and Emperor Showa of Japan in Tokyo, Japan, 9 Nov 1983 | Secretary of the Navy John Lehman promoting Grace Hopper to the rank of commodore, White House, Washington DC, United States, 15 Dec 1983; observed by US President Ronald Reagan |
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| Battleship New Jersey firing a salvo during deployment off Beirut, Lebanon, 9 Jan 1984 | M114 howtizer of Kilo Battery, 1st Battalion, US 12th Marine Regiment during the Operation Kernel Blitz exercise, California, United States, 31 Jan 1984 |
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| President Ronald Reagan spoke at the 40th anniversary of the Normandy invasion, Pointe du Hoc, Normandy, France, 6 Jun 1984 | USS Iowa firing a full broadside during practice off Vieques island, Puerto Rico, 1 Jul 1984 |
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| USS Iowa in the Pedro Miguel lock of the Panama Canal, 6 Aug 1984 | USS Iowa firing a full broadside during a gunnery demonstration, 15 Aug 1984 |
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