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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-324218

Doolittle Raid on Japan, April 1942


USS Fanning (DD-385) escorting USS Enterprise (CV-6) on the day the Doolittle Raid aircraft were launched, 18 April 1942.
Photographed from USS Salt Lake City (CA-25). Destroyer in the background, headed toward the left, is USS Balch (DD-363), flagship of Destroyer Squadron Six.

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

Online Image: 78KB; 740 x 600 pixels

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21 February 2001