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English: USS Boxer (CV-21) Slides down the building ways, during launching ceremonies at the Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Company, Newport News, Virginia, 14 December 1944. Note banner spread across the front of Boxer's flight deck, proclaiming: "Here We Go to Tokyo! Newport News Shipyard Workers' War Bonds Help to Sink the Rising Sun".
Date U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. Photo #: NH 56560
Source US Navy Historical Database
Author U.S. Navy
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