File:USS Franklin (CV-13) off Puget Sound Navy Yard in January 1945.jpg

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Description The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Franklin (CV-13) at anchor at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington (USA), on 31 January 1945. Following three kamikaze hits off Leyte on 27 October 1944, she entered the Puget Sound Navy Yard on 28 November 1944. Franklin departed from Bremerton on 2 February 1945. Note her enhanced anti-aircraft artillery with three 40 mm quadruple mounts added below the bridge and one above the stern. Her dazzle pattern camouflage was changed to Measure 21.
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Source U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No. 1996.488.246.007
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