File:USS Wrangell (AE-12) replenishing USS Massachusetts (BB-59) in 1945.jpg

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Description The U.S. Navy battleship USS Massachusetts (BB-59) replenishing from the ammunition ship USS Wrangell (AE-12). Wrangell then retired to San Pedro Bay, Leyte, for upkeep and repairs. Wrangell subsequently returned to the open sea on 8 July 1945 and rendezvoused with TG 30.8 (the redesignated TG 50.8) on the 17th. From 20 July to 1 August 1945, she rearmed 35 ships and hit a high point of transferring 700 tons of ammunition in a single day.
Date Taken in June 1945
Source U.S. Navy photo [1] from Navsource.org
Author USN

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