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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-54553

Battle of Kula Gulf, 5-6 July 1943


USS Helena (CL-50), in the center, firing during the Battle of Kula Gulf, just before she was torpedoed and sunk.
The next ship astern is USS Saint Louis (CL-49).
Photographed from USS Honolulu (CL-48).

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

Online Image: 33KB; 740 x 625 pixels

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9 October 2000