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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-47471

USS Phoenix (CL-46)


Crewmen at port side midships 5"/25, 20mm and 40mm anti-aircraft guns strain to identify a plane flying overhead, during the Mindoro invasion, 18 December 1944.
This was a time of intense Kamikaze attacks, as the expressions on men's faces indicate.
Note whaleboat in the lower left, anti-flash clothing, and floater net enclosed in a bag at right.

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

Online Image: 121KB; 740 x 625 pixels

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20 May 2002