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PACIFIC OCEAN. 1945-03-19. HIT BY TWO 500 POUND BOMBS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS FRANKLIN HAS HER AFTER PART COVERED IN SMOKE FROM FIRES BURNING ON HER HANGAR DECK AND THE RESULTING EXPLOSIONS OF BOMBS AND ROCKETS. SHE IS DEAD IN THE WATER AND LISTING 13 DEGREES, THE HEAT AND SMOKE HAVING FORCED THE EVACUATION OF HER ENGINE ROOMS. LINES AND LADDERS DRAPE FROM THE SHIP TO THE WATER, MOST OF HER CREW HAVING BEEN TAKEN OFF BY THE CRUISER USS SANTA FE (LEFT FOREGROUND). THE SKELETON CREW REMAINING ABOARD CONGREGATE NEAR THE WRECKED FORWARD ELEVATOR, WAITING TO BE ASSIGNED TO FIRE FIGHTING DETAILS. 724 MEN WERE KILLED AND AND 265 WOUNDED, OVER A QUARTER OF THE SHIP'S COMPANY. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION)
1. "Air Sea Battle: surface fleet continues to batter enemy air attacks". Coverage of the Kamikaze attacks on USN TF-58 in the Okinawa campaign. Shows suicide aircraft attacking through an intense ant
SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN. 1942-09-15. THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS WASP, LISTING AND WITH SMOKE POURING FROM OIL AND GASOLINE FIRES CAUSED BY THREE TORPEDO HITS IN THE STARBOARD SIDE FROM THE JAPANESE SUBMARIN
DETAILED VIEW STARBOARD SIDE OF THE DESTROYER HMAS NESTOR (G02) LISTING TO PORT AND ABANDONED AFTER SUFFERING FATAL DAMAGE TO HER BOILER ROOMS IN A BOMBING ATTACK. NOTE THE HAMMOCKS DRAPED OVER THE SI
Naples, Italy. 4 April 1943. Bombs falling on the harbour during a raid by about one hundred Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress bomber aircraft of the US Army Air Force. Below them other bombs are seen falli
OFF OKINAWA, JAPAN. 1945-04-29. HER SUPERSTRUCTURE IN SHAMBLES AFTER BEING HIT AT MAIN DECK LEVEL AND SPLASHED WITH FLAMING FUEL BY JAPANESE KAMIKAZE AIRCRAFT, THE DESTROYER USS HAZELWOOD LIES DEAD AN
TARBOARD QUARTER VIEW OF THE DESTROYER HMAS NESTOR (G02) LISTING TO PORT AND ABANDONED AFTER SUFFERING FATAL DAMAGE TO HER BOILER ROOMS IN A BOMBING ATTACK. NOTE THE HAMMOCKS DRAPED OVER THE SIDE FOR
