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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-328618

USS Bunker Hill (CV-17)


Burning after being hit by a "Kamikaze" attack while operating off Okinawa on 11 May 1945.
Photographed from USS Wilkes Barre (CL-103), which appears to have received fire damage herself helping to fight the blaze from alongside the carrier.
A destroyer is off Bunker Hill's port side.

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

Online Image: 74KB; 740 x 605 pixels

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5 June 2000