File:USS Venetia polishing the star.jpg
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Photo #: NH 45230
USS Venetia (SP-431)
Crew members polish the "star of reward" mounted on this ship's smokestack. Photographed at San Francisco, California, 26 February 1919. This star was awarded to the ship for her anti-submarine activities during World War I. At the time she was credited with sinking three German U-boats.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph. http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-v/sp431.htm
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