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Title: Terminal Island Naval Shipyard
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: U.S. Naval Air Station
Date Created and/or Issued: 1941
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: U.S. Naval Air Station indicated on back.
The birth of the Terminal Island Naval Shipyard. This aerial view of Terminal Island taken on August 1, 1941, shows the site of the shipyard. Construction of the drydock was begun in September 1940. From a group of unfinished drydocks on the mud flats of the island, the Terminal Island Naval Shipyard was built. Hundreds of ships were built here during World War II.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00050798
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box 233.
CARL0000054982
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/23563
Subject: Terminal Island Naval Shipyard (Los Angeles, Calif.)
United States.--Navy
Shipbuilding--California--Terminal Island
World War, 1939-1945
Terminal Island (Calif.)
Aerial photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs

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