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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-270453

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


View from the foredeck on USS Birmingham (CL-62) as she stood alongside Princeton to help fight her fires, during the afternoon of 24 October. The carrier had been hit by a Japanese air attack while operating off the Philippines.
Note fire hoses on Birmingham's deck and details of the underside of her Number Two 6"/47 gun turret.

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

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15 May 2003