Keywords: View of Puget Sound Navy Yard in 1940.jpg View of the U S Puget Sound Navy Yard Bremerton Washington USA in 1940 Identifiable ships include front to back the aircraft carrier USS Lexington CV-2 ; a New Orleans-class heavy cruiser; a Tennessee-class battleship left ; a Nevada-class battleship; a Brooklyn-class light cruiser; two Farragut-class destroyers; a Northampton-class heavy cruiser is in a drydock; one of the destroyers in the foreground is probably USS Charles F Hughes DD-428 which was built at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and commissioned on 5 September 1940 The other could be USS Monssen DD-436 commissioned on 14 March 1941 The contruction of Drydock No 5 was started in the background 6036986 1936 U S Department of the Navy Thirteenth Naval District Office of the Commandant PD-USGov Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in the 1940s USS Lexington CV-2 |