The U.S. Navy destroyer USS <i>Charles Ausburne</i> (DD-570) receiving mail by highline from the light cruiser USS <i>Columbia</i> (CL-56), while steaming in the Solomon Islands, 27 September 1943. On the night of 27-28 September, shortly after this photograph was taken, <i>Charles Ausburne</i>'s gunfire sank two Japanese barges off Vella Lavella.
27 September 1943<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1943-09-27T00:00:00Z/11</div>
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