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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 95560

Simpson Harbor, Rabaul, New Britain


A bomb explodes off the port quarter of a Japanese cargo ship (at right) during an attack on Simpson Harbor by aircraft of the USAAF 3rd Bomb Group, 2 November 1943.
The heavy cruiser Haguro is in the center distance.
A low-flying B-25 bomber is visible in the lower left.

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

Online Image: 55KB; 740 x 375 pixels

 

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20 March 2003