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[Dual launching of USS TILLMAN (DD 641) and USS BEATTY (DD 640) at Charleston, S.C. Navy Yard, Dec. 20, 1941] – Antique Print

[Dual launching of USS TILLMAN (DD 641) and USS BEATTY (DD 640) at Charleston, S.C. Navy Yard, Dec. 20, 1941] — historic photograph
[Dual launching of USS TILLMAN (DD 641) and USS BEATTY (DD 640) at Charleston, S.C. Navy Yard, Dec. 20, 1941]. Historic photograph from the Charleston collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: [Dual launching of USS TILLMAN (DD 641) and USS BEATTY (DD 640) at Charleston, S.C. Navy Yard, Dec. 20, 1941], preserved in this historic photograph. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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[Dual launching of USS TILLMAN (DD 641) and USS BEATTY (DD 640) at Charleston, S.C. Navy Yard, Dec. 20, 1941]

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Two destroyers, USS Tillman (DD 641) and USS Beatty (DD 640), slide down the ways together in this picture, taken at the Charleston, South Carolina, Navy Yard on December 20, 1941. The date fell less than two weeks after the attack on Pearl Harbor, when the Navy was rapidly expanding its fleet and shipyards up and down the coast were working at full speed. Double launchings like this one let a yard send two hulls into the water at once, a practical step in wartime production. The photograph's Navy source number and date come from an old caption card, so they are worth checking against other records.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes1941
SubjectsPhoto by USN #11982. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf. Ships -- South Carolina.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,238 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-125412

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