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Image Description |
Source |
USS YMS-268 |
![Lapwing](http://www.navsource.org/archives/11/tn/110200108.gif) |
84k |
Namesake: Lapwing - Named for the crested plover (Vanellus vanellus) of Europe, Asia, and northern Africa, noted for its slow, irregular, flapping flight and its shrill wailing cry |
Tommy Trampp Photo added 8 February 2020 |
![YMS-268](http://www.navsource.org/archives/11/tn/111926801.gif) |
110k |
c. 1945 San Francisco Bay, CA Courtesy of Donald McPherson, 1976 Naval History and Heritage Command photo NH 84973 |
Mike Green |
USS Lapwing (AMS 48) |
![Lapwing/YMS-268](http://www.navsource.org/archives/11/tn/111926802.gif) |
270k |
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Mike Smolinski |
![Peregrine](http://www.navsource.org/archives/11/tn/110237303.gif) |
224k |
Right to left: Tutuila (ARG 4), Peregrine (AM 373), Fulmar (AMS 47), Hawk (AMS 17), Lapwing, and Cardinal (AMS 4). U.S. Navy photo from the August 1959 edition of All Hands magazine |
Joe Radigan |