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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 76496

Munda-Vila Bombardment, 13 May 1943


USS Helena (CL-50) firing during the night bombardment, as seen from USS Honolulu (CL-48). Gunfire causes wavy pattern of tracers.

Collection of Vice Admiral Walden L. Ainsworth.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the collections of the Naval Historical Center.

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9 October 2000