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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-248549

Battle of the Philippine Sea, June 1944


Fighter plane contrails mark the sky over Task Force 58, during the "Great Marianas Turkey Shoot" phase of the battle, 19 June 1944.
Photographed from on board USS Birmingham (CL-62).

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

Online Image: 67KB; 740 x 620 pixels

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21 October 2002