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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-273003

Operations around Leyte, October-December 1944


USS Saint Louis (CL-49) is hit aft by a Kamikaze suicide plane, while off Leyte on 27 November 1944.
Photographed from USS West Virginia (BB-48).
Note anti-aircraft shell bursts at left.

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

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28 May 2002