U.S. Navy Patrol Torpedo Boats of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 40 as it is commissioned at the New York Navy Yard in Brooklyn at 12:05 p.m. on April 26, 1945.
Categories: Ships and Submarines
 
 
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