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[StartQuote] I asked at Steel Navy where the picture might be located. Rick Davis replied: "Likely the original photo is in the 80-G collection of Misc Official USN photos at NARA in College Park, MD. It may be possible to find the ship by looking up the ship's name in the card catalog there. But, if the ship was unknown to the photographer (merchant ships would "normally" display a sign that could be flipped out with the ship's name for ID purposes while in the USA waters or radio comm would get the ship's name), it would take a lot of digging otherwise. Having a date helps. It appears that this is a Recon Blimp (ZP) photo or a Patrol aircraft photo, some of those blimp guys took a lot of photos and capture some interesting views. Hence there are 100s if not 1,000s of these photos taken during WWII in 80-G. Also, most convoys with tankers originated from Hampton Roads, VA especially from 1943 onwards heading to North Africa/Med or some units would vector off to UK after the midway point. " Could be there are more like this... Patrick Matthews Matthews Model Marine http://matthewsmodelmarine.wordpress.com/[EndQuote]
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