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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-33379

USS Smith (DD-378)


Refueling from USS South Dakota (BB-57) on 28 October 1942.
Her two forward 5"/38 guns and much of her forward superstructure are burned out and otherwise damaged, the result of a Japanese torpedo plane that crashed into her two days earlier, during the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands.

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

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7 January 2002