Iron Bottom Sound-Pics

The DeHaven DD-469 Today

Below are three actual pictures of the DeHaven on the bottom of "Iron Bottom Sound" taken in 1993. From the book The Lost Ships of Guadalcanal by Robert D. Ballard

A picture of the deck of the DeHaven

Her port screw

One of her guns

A sketch showing how it sits on the bottom

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