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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-351726

Haruna
(Japanese Battleship, 1915)

On the bottom near Kure, Japan, on 8 October 1945. She had been sunk by carrier plane attacks on 28 July 1945.
Note the small vessel "beached" on her forecastle, and the tree limbs mounted on her decks and superstructure as a camouflage measure.

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

Online Image: 54KB; 610 x 765 pixels

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18 December 2001