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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-378525

Battle off Samar, 25 October 1944


Japanese battleship Yamato (foreground) and a heavy cruiser in action during the Battle off Samar.
The cruiser appears to be either Tone or Chikuma.
Photographed from a USS Petrof Bay (CVE-80) plane.

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

Online Image: 155KB; 740 x 615 pixels

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12 May 2000