Return to Naval Historical Center home page. Return to Online Library listing

DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY -- NAVAL HISTORICAL CENTER
901 M STREET SE -- WASHINGTON NAVY YARD
WASHINGTON DC 20374-5060

Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-33947

Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, October 1942


A Japanese Type 99 shipboard bomber (Allied codename "Val") trails smoke as it dives toward USS Hornet (CV-8), during the morning of 26 October 1942. This plane struck the ship's stack and then her flight deck.
A Type 97 shipboard attack plane ("Kate") is flying over Hornet after dropping its torpedo, and another "Val" is off her bow.
Note anti-aircraft shell burst between Hornet and the camera, with its fragments striking the water nearby.

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

Online Image: 83KB; 740 x 610 pixels

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

 

Click on the small photograph to prompt a larger view of the same image.

If higher resolution reproductions than this digital image are desired, see "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."

Return to Naval Historical Center home page.

3 May 1999