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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 50949

Wake Island Raid, 24 February 1942


A Japanese patrol boat (black smudge to the right) under attack by gunfire from USS Balch (DD-363) and USS Maury (DD-401) and aircraft from USS Enterprise (CV-6), during the Wake Island raid.
Photographed from USS Salt Lake City (CA-25).

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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7 May 2002