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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-270375

Loss of USS Princeton (CVL-23), 24 October 1944


Damage control parties standing on Princeton's forward port flight deck, during attempts to control her fires during the afternoon of 24 October 1944. Photographed from USS Birmingham (CL-62), which was assisting from alongside.
Note the 40mm twin gun mount at left, whose shield has been torn off by Birmingham's Number Two gun turret as the two ships rolled and pitched while in close contact with each other. They were then operating off the Philippines.

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

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15 May 2003