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- GLC#
- GLC09677.58-View header record
- Type
- Images
- Date
- January 13, 1961
- Author/Creator
- Associated Press
- Title
- Moth Ball Fleet Awaits Call to Duty
- Place Written
- San Diego, California
- Pagination
- 1 photograph Height: 25.3 cm, Width: 20.5 cm
- Primary time period
- 1945 to the Present
- Sub-Era
- The Sixties
One wirephoto released by Associated Press dated January 13, 1961. Shows a naval shipyard. The embedded press release reports that the ships are part of the "moth ball" fleet sitting at the ready. If they were needed ships would be quickly refurbished and converted to combat ships.
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