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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-270773

USS Ward (APD-16)


Afire after she was hit by a "Kamikaze" in Ormoc Bay, Leyte, on 7 December 1944. She sank later in the day.
Exactly three years earlier, on the morning of 7 December 1941, while on patrol off Pearl Harbor, Ward fired the first shot of the Pacific War.

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

Online Image: 68KB; 605 x 765 pixels

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14 November 2000