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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 95785

Battle off Cape Engano, 25 October 1944


Japanese aircraft carrier Zuikaku underway early in the action, while she was still capable of making good speed.
Note camouflage pattern painted on her flight deck, and smoke coming from her stacks.
Photographed from a U.S. Navy carrier plane.

Copied in 1986 from an original print in the TG38.3 action report of 2 December 1944.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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16 May 2000