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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-413914

"Ten-Go" Operation, April 1945


Japanese battleship Yamato blows up after receiving massive bomb and torpedo damage from U.S. Navy carrier planes, north of Okinawa on 7 April 1945.
Three Japanese destroyers are nearby.

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

Online Image: 76KB; 740 x 615 pixels

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12 May 2000