Photo #: NH 65605
USS Mount Hood (AE-11)
Explodes in Seeadler Harbor, Manus, Admiralty Islands, 10 November
1944.
Photographed by a photographer of the 57th Construction Battalion,
who had set up his camera to take pictures of the Battalion's
camp.
Note smoke trails left by fragments ejected by the explosion,
and splashes at their impact points.
Collection of Commander Lester B. Marx, Commanding Officer of
the 57th C.B.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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