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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-272556

Battle off Cape Engano, 25 October 1944


Japanese ships under attack by Task Force 38 aircraft, during the afternoon of 25 October. Carrier Zuikaku is dead in the water and smoking in the left center. Light carrier Zuiho is underway at the left, nearer to the camera.
Photographed from a USS Franklin (CV-13) plane.
Note anti-aircraft shell bursts overhead.

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

Online Image: 78KB; 740 x 580 pixels

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16 May 2000