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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-88024

Battle of the Eastern Solomons
, 24 August 1942

The Japanese heavy cruiser Tone photographed from a USAAF B-17 bomber, during high-level bombing attacks on the immobile carrier Ryujo on 24 August 1942.
Ryujo is out of this view, some distance beyond the top edge.

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

Online Image: 51KB; 640 x 675 pixels

Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system.

Note:
an enlargement of this image, emphasizing the ship and her wake, can be seen as Photo # 80-G-88024 (cropped).

 

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23 November 2001