USS_LCI(L)-551.jpg
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Description USS LCI(L)-551.jpg |
English:
The United States Navy
w:large infantry landing craft
USS
LCI(L)-551
in May 1945, flying her colors at half-mast in honor of the recently deceased President
w:Franklin D. Roosevelt
. On 29 July 1945, during
w:Project Hula
, the United States transferred her to the Soviet Navy in which, as
DS-48
, she took part in the Soviet
w:invasion of the Kuril Islands
. The Soviet Union returned her to the United States in 1955.
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Date | May 1945 |
Source | Scanned from Russell, Richard A., Project Hula: Secret Soviet-American Cooperation in the War Against Japan , Washington, D.C.: w:Naval Historical Center , 1997, ISBN 0-945274-35-1 , page 19. |
Author | United States Navy photograph via National Archives |
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U.S. Navy
, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a
work
of the
U.S. federal government
, it is in the
public domain
in the United States.
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