Subchaser at Luders Marine, Stamford CT in March 1942
A U.S. Navy SC-497-class submarine chaser at Luders Marine Construction, Stamford, Connecticut (USA), in March 1942. USS PC-506 was commissioned on 30 April 1942 and reclassified SC-506 in April 1943. It was transferred to France on 27 September 1944 and reclassified CH-113. Original description: "Production. Submarine chasers. Another worry for the U-boats. A new American subchaser that will hound the undersea craft of the Axis is commissioned at an Eastern boatyard. Target boats are moored alongside. Marine Construction Company, Stamford, Connecticut."
- Date
- 1942-03
- Photographer / author
- Howard Liberman, photographer
- Collection
- FSA/OWI
- Archive
- Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 7,539 × 5,621 pixels
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"Subchaser at Luders Marine, Stamford CT in March 1942" (1942-03). Howard Liberman, photographer. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Subchaser_at_Luders_Marine,_Stamford_CT_in_March_1942.jpgNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 125411.
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