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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-30614

Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, October 1942


Japanese heavy cruiser Chikuma underway during the battle, as seen from a USS Enterprise (CV-6) aircraft, 26 October 1942.
Note smoke coming from her bridge area, which had been hit by a bomb.

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

Online Image: 183KB; 740 x 615 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

Note:
see Photo # NH 82404 for a version of this photograph that has been cropped to better emphasize the ship.

 

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16 January 2002