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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-270431

Battle of Leyte Gulf, October 1944


USS Reno (CL-96) fighting fires from alongside the port quarter of the burning USS Princeton (CVL-23), 24 October 1944.
Princeton had been hit by Japanese air attack earlier in the day.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 72KB; 740 x 575 pixels

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5 May 2005