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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-291377

Leyte Operation, October 1944


The Australian heavy cruisers Shropshire (left) and Australia (right), with a U.S. heavy cruiser, photographed through a ring gun sight on board USS Phoenix (CL-46), off Leyte on 21 October 1944.

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

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20 February 2002