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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-218422

Carrier Raids on the Marianas
, February 1944

A Japanese bomber explodes as it crashes into the sea near USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24), during an attack on Task Group 58.2 off the Mariana Islands, 23 February 1944.
Photographed from USS Essex (CV-9).

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

Online Image: 138KB; 740 x 605 pixels

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3 May 2000