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YP-73 underway, date and location unknown (probably in Puget Sound in late 1940). Note the 3"/23 gun forward.
Cropped from U.S. Navy Bureau of Ships Photograph, Bureau of Ships General Correspondence, YP-72 file, Box 472, National Archives and Records Administration, Textual Records Branch, College Park, Md

Dave Wright

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YP-73 hauled out on a seaplane ramp at Women's Bay, AK, 10 April 1941.
US Navy photo from NAS Kodiak (VFW collection)

Joe Radigan MACM USN Ret.

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YP-73 off Little Port Walter, Alaska, circa 1942. Note her armament at this time consists of a 3"/23 mount forward, a short depth charge rack, and a .30 caliber machine gun on the stern.

Thomas L. Deits,
for his father,
Gordon R. Deits, USNR (Ret.)

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YP-73 underway in Alaskan waters, circa 1943. Her armament now consists of two 20mm AA guns fore and aft (replacing the 3"/23), as well as two .50 caliber machine guns aft.

Thomas L. Deits,
for his father,
Gordon R. Deits, USNR (Ret.)