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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 82476

Simpson Harbor, Rabaul, New Britain


Attack on Japanese shipping in Simpson Harbor by aircraft of the USAAF 3rd Bomb Group, 2 November 1943.
The heavy cruiser Haguro is in the upper right center, beyond the bomb splashes. The ship in the center distance appears the submarine tender Chogei or Jingei.

The original photograph came from Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's World War II history project working files.

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

Online Image: 131KB; 690 x 635 pixels

Note:
An earlier identification of this photograph as having been taken during the 5 November 1943 Rabaul raid by USS Saratoga (CV-3) is not correct.

 

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20 March 2003