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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-33333

Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, October 1942


USS Smith (DD-378) is hit by a crashing Japanese torpedo plane, during an attack on USS Enterprise (CV-6), 26 October 1942.
Photographed from USS South Dakota (BB-57).

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

Online Image: 66KB; 740 x 615 pixels

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7 January 2002