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Photo #: 80-G-272781

Task Force 38 Raids on Formosa, October 1944


A destroyer alongside the damaged USS Houston (CL-81) on 15 October 1944, removing excess crewmen after she was torpedoed by Japanese aircraft off Formosa. Photographed from USS Boston (CA-69).
Note OS2U floatplane on Boston's port catapult.

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

Online Image: 81KB; 740 x 610 pixels

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23 January 2003