Photographs of the launching of the U.S.S. Alazon Bay [graphic], 1943 April 5.

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Photographs of the launching of the U.S.S. Alazon Bay [graphic], 1943 April 5.

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Photographs of the launching of the escort carrier CVE-55 USS Alazon Bay (later the U.S.S. Casablanca), at Kaiser shipyards, Vancouver, Washington. Includes images of Eleanor Roosevelt at festivities and christening the ship, Henry Kaiser, and Josephine Hilda Schmid Coffin, governess to the Kaiser family.

36 photographs.

Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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