File:USS Markab (AD-21) with destroyers c1944.jpg

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Description The U.S. Navy destroyer tender USS Markab (AD-21) in a Pacific anchorage, with five destroyers alongside, circa 1944 or early 1945. The destroyer closest to Markab is of the round bridge Fletcher class, otherwise unidentified. The others are, from center to right: USS Longshaw (DD-559); USS Preston (DD-795); USS Porterfield (DD-682); and USS Cassin Young (DD-793). Wartime censors have retouched the photograph to remove all radar antennas.
Date circa December 1944
date QS:P,+1944-12-00T00:00:00Z/10,P1480,Q5727902
Source Official U.S. Navy photo NH 99281 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command
Author USN
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