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Ca. July 1943: The Tribal Class destroyer HMAS ARUNTA off the Eastern Solomons - USN, courtesy Brett Morrow. | by Kookaburra2011
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Ca. July 1943: The Tribal Class destroyer HMAS ARUNTA off the Eastern Solomons - USN, courtesy Brett Morrow.

4389. Taken by a Photographer's Mate on USS NICHOLAS in the Eastern Solomons about July 1943, this is a marvelous portrait of HMAS ARUNTA, which we've kept for Anzac Day.

 

It is a companion to another old favourite, produced very early in this Unofficial RAN Centenary 1911-2011 Photostream at pic NO. 37, here:

 

www.flickr.com/photos/41311545@N05/3809799047/

 

We have become uncertain of the precise dating on that image, as we have since noticed a clustering of USN images of Australian ships on the date shown there [July 22, 1943].

 

This Photo: United States Navy, it is held by the U.S. Naval Historical and Heritage Command, Washington, and in the U.S. National Archives. With some image enhancement, it has been sent to us by Contributor Brett Morrow.

 

 

 

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Uploaded on April 25, 2011