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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-44059

Bougainville Operation, November 1943


A Japanese plane plunges into the sea ahead of USS Columbia (CL-56), as she steams in column with other cruisers during the attack on Bougainville, 1-2 November 1943.
Note 6"/47 gun turrets, with six-inch shell casings on deck below them.

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

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16 September 2002