USS Parche arriving at Mare Island Naval Shipyard for deactivation overhaul, 14 Oct 1946. Parche had already withstood two atomic bomb explosions at Bikini Atoll and a decontamination process at Pearl Harbor.

Caption     USS Parche arriving at Mare Island Naval Shipyard for deactivation overhaul, 14 Oct 1946. Parche had already withstood two atomic bomb explosions at Bikini Atoll and a decontamination process at Pearl Harbor. ww2dbase
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