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LEYTE ISLAND, THE PHILIPPINES, 1944-10-26. FIRST OF A SERIES OF FOUR PHOTOGRAPHS SHOWING A JAPANESE KAMIKAZE ATTACK ON THE UNITED STATES AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS SUWANNEE. THE SUWANNEE WAS ENGAGED IN RECOVERING RETURNING FIGHTER PLANES AT THE TIME THE UNSUSPECTED SUICIDE PLANE CAME OUT OF THE CLOUDS. UNAWARE OF THE ATTACK AN AMERICAN F6F AIRCRAFT APPROACHES FROM ASTERN TO LAND. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION)
LEYTE ISLAND, THE PHILIPPINES, 1944-10-26. SECOND OF A SERIES OF FOUR PHOTOGRAPHS SHOWING A JAPANESE KAMIKAZE ATTACK ON THE UNITED STATES AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS SUWANNEE. THE SUICIDE PLANE IS ABOUT TO C
LEYTE ISLAND, THE PHILIPPINES, 1944-10-26. THIRD IN A SERIES OF FOUR PHOTOGRAPHS SHOWING A JAPANESE KAMIKAZE ATTACK ON THE UNITED STATES AIRCRAFT CARRIER, USS SUWANNEE. THE SUICIDE PLANE HAS JUST CRAS
LEYTE ISLAND, THE PHILIPPINES, 1944-10-26. LAST IN A SERIES OF FOUR PHOTOGRAPHS SHOWING A JAPANESE KAMIKAZE ATTACK ON THE UNITED STATES AIRCRAFT CARRIER, USS SUWANNEE. SECONDS AFTER THE EXPLOSION OF T
WESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN. 1944-10. STARBOARD SIDE VIEW OF THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS TICONDEROGA (CV-14) RECOVERING GRUMMAN F6F HELLCAT FIGHTERS IN THE COURSE OF OPERATIONS AGAINST JAPANESE FORCES IN THE P
Large clouds of smoke billow from the US aircraft carrier Bunker Hill burning furiously after being hit twice within thirty seconds by Japanese kamikaze (suicide) planes. The fires eventually were ext
OFF SURIGAO STRAIT, PHILIPPINES. 1944-10-26. HIT AND AFLAME FROM DEFENSIVE GUNFIRE A JAPANESE KAMIKAZE AIRCRAFT NARROWLY MISSES THE ESCORT AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS SANGAMON. (NAVAL HISTORICAL COLLECTION)
