File:USS Radford (DD-446) steaming into Tulagi Harbour with 468 survivors form USS Helena (CL-50) on 6 July 1943.jpg

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Description The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Radford (DD-446) steaming into Tulagi Harbour in the Solomons with a deckload of survivors of the sunken light cruiser USS Helena (CL-50), and with the wounded filling all available space below, 6 July 1943. Helena was sunk during the Battle of Kula Gulf the night before. Radford received Presidential Unit Citation for the rescue of 468 survivors.
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current16:04, 1 August 2017Thumbnail for version as of 16:04, 1 August 20171,024 × 750 (212 KB)Cobatfor (talk | contribs)navsource photo
15:40, 1 August 2006Thumbnail for version as of 15:40, 1 August 2006758 × 360 (104 KB)Cla68 (talk | contribs)''USS Radford with survivors of the cruiser USS Helena on deck after the night surface engagement off Kula Gulf, 5-6 July 1943. http://www.navsource.org/archives/05/446.htm

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