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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-351753

Aoba
(Japanese heavy cruiser, 1927)

Scene on board the sunken ship, just offshore at Kure, Japan, 9 October 1945.
This view looks aft from the forward gun director platform, showing smokestacks, anti-aircraft gun positions, mainmast, aircraft handling deck and after 20cm twin gun turret.

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

Online Image: 135KB; 590 x 765 pixels

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7 November 2001