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International News photo
Source: David Buell

Launching Program
Source: Ron Reeves

Source: S. Dale Hargrave

Philadelphia, PA
Mrs. Harlan J. Bushfield (left), wife of the Governor of South Dakota, who will christen the battleship USS South Dakota (BB-57) at the New York Shipbuilding Company, Camden, New Jersey on June 7, was on hand to get some pointers from Mrs. Ralph A. Bard (right), wife of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, who christened the Terror, the first mine layer built for the Navy, at the launching ceremonies today at the Philadelphia Navy Yard
Photo by Acme Newspictures
Source: Bill Gonyo

Source: S. Dale Hargrave

Launch souvenir pin
Source: Tommy Trampp

Life magazine photos by George Strock
Source: John Chiquoine

Life magazine photos by George Strock
Source: John Chiquoine