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Verso/Reverse of Official U.S. Navy Photograph Print, USS Petrof Bay (CVE-80), Dated 21 August 1945

Verso/Reverse of Official U.S. Navy Photograph Print, USS Petrof Bay (CVE-80), Dated 21 August 1945

The reverse of this official U.S. Navy photograph bears the standard Bureau of Aeronautics control stamp, identifying it as image No. 532, made for the ship's Air Department aboard USS Petrof Bay (CVE-80) and dated 21 August 1945 — administrative detail typical of wartime naval photographic recordkeeping. Project: 218467