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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-274014

USS Franklin (CV-13)


Approaches New York City, while en route to the New York Navy Yard for repairs, 26 April 1945.
Note the extensive damage to her after flight deck, received when she was hit by a Japanese air attack off the coast of Japan on 19 March 1945.
Photographed by Naval Air Station Lakehurst, New Jersey.

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

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8 January 2001