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English: Lieutenant-Commander Desmond W. Piers, Commanding Officer, on the bridge of the destroyer H.M.C.S. RESTIGOUCHE, which is escorting Convoy SC-107 at sea, 21 April 1944.
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Taken on 21 April 1944
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This image is available from Library and Archives Canada under the reproduction reference number PA-136286 and under the MIKAN ID number 3204127
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