Photo #: NH 83992
USS Enterprise (CV-6)
Near-miss bomb damage to the ship's port quarter, received during
the Battle of the Eastern Solomons on 24 August 1942. Note degaussing
cables torn from their mountings, just below the deck edge, and
the dished-in hull plating at and below the waterline.
Photographed in drydock at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard on 10 September
1942.
Courtesy of the Naval Historical Foundation, Forrestal Collection,
1975.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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