Image: USS Radford (DD-446) steaming into Tulagi Harbour with 468 survivors form USS Helena (CL-50), 6 July 1943
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Description: The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Radford (DD-446) steaming into Tulagi Harbour in the Solomons with a deckload of survivors of the sunken light cruiser USS Helena (CL-50), and with the wounded filling all available space below, 6 July 1943. Helena was sunk during the Battle of Kula Gulf the night before. Radford received Presidential Unit Citation for the rescue of 468 survivors.
Title: USS Radford (DD-446) steaming into Tulagi Harbour with 468 survivors form USS Helena (CL-50), 6 July 1943
Credit: U.S. Navy photo [1] from Navsource.org
Author: U.S. Navy
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