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The United States Navy w:large infantry landing craft USS LCI(L)-551 in May 1945, flying her colors at half-mast in honor of the recently deceased President w:Franklin D. Roosevelt. On 29 July 1945, during w:Project Hula, the United States transferred her to the Soviet Navy in which, as DS-48, she took part in the Soviet w:invasion of the Kuril Islands. The Soviet Union returned her to the United States in 1955. |
| Date | May 1945 |
| Source | Scanned from Russell, Richard A., Project Hula: Secret Soviet-American Cooperation in the War Against Japan, Washington, D.C.: w:Naval Historical Center, 1997, ISBN 0-945274-35-1, page 19. |
| Author | United States Navy photograph via National Archives |
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