USS Compton (DD-705) and USS Gainard (DD-706) moored in Tripoli Harbor in October
1948 Tripoli, Libya
The destroyers USS Compton (DD-705) and USS Gainard (DD-706) lie moored together in Tripoli Harbor in this October 1948 photograph. At the time, Libya was administered under British military rule in the years following World War II, before independence in 1951.
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