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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-270430

Battle of Leyte Gulf, October 1944


USS Reno (CL-96) comes alongside the burning USS Princeton (CVL-23) to assist in fighting fires, 24 October 1944.
Princeton had been hit by Japanese air attack earlier in the day.

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

Online Image: 71KB; 740 x 595 pixels

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5 May 2005