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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-315762

USS Enterprise (CV-6)
, at left

Under attack by a Japanese suicide plane, during operations off Okinawa on 11 April 1945. She was hit and damaged on this day, but returned to action in early May following repairs made at Ulithi.
At right is USS Oakland (CL-95), which is opening fire on the diving plane.
Note tracer shells streaking across the upper part of the image.

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

Online Image: 82KB; 740 x 550 pixels

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4 April 2003