File:USS Fall River (CA-131) at anchor on 12 August 1945 (cropped).jpg

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English: The U.S. Navy Baltimore-class heavy cruiser USS Fall River (CA-131) at anchor on 12 August 1945. She is painted in Camouflage Measure 21. Two Curtiss SC-1 Seahawk reconnaissance planes are on the catapults. Fall River was commissioned on 1 July 1945 and decommissioned already on 31 October 1947. She became known as the flagship of the nucelar test force at the Bikini Atoll between May and September 1946.
Date 12 August 1945
date QS:P571,+1945-08-12T00:00:00Z/11
institution QS:P195,Q3250126
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L45-92.01.01
Source U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command photo L45-92.01.01
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U.S. Navy photo in: Stefan Terzibaschitsch: Kreuzer der U.S. Navy. Koehler, Herford 1984, ISBN 3782203488, p. 232.

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