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Swallow (AM 65).jpg

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English: Passing mail to a destroyer somewhere in the South Pacific. Photo from the September 1943 issue of "All Hands" magazine.
Date Unknown date
Source http://www.navsource.org/archives/11/02065.htm
Author USN

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This is actually a picture of mail delivery to the minesweeper USS Swallow (AM65) in the South Pacific it was sunk by a kamikazi suicide pilot in April of 45 Near the Ryuku Islands during the battle for Okinawa

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