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USS Tingey (DD 539), a typical Fletcher class
destroyer, re-fuels at Midway Island in 1962. USS Watts (DD 567)
is inboard. (Photo by John Samuelson)

Cutaway, Fletcher class destroyer

Five inch 38 caliber single gun mount elevation

Fletcher class destroyer bridge and Mk. 37 director detail

Higgins class PT boat

Proximity fuse (approximately 9 inches)

Marc Mitscher, Rear Admiral, USN

Yamamoto briefing his pilots at Rabaul for Operation "I"
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