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Photo #: NH 98129
USS Birmingham (CL-62)
Damage caused by a Kamikaze which struck the ship's deck just
aft of her Number Two gun turret, during operations off Okinawa
on 4 May 1945.
Fifty-one of Birmingham's crew lost their lives and eighty-one
were injured in this suicide attack.
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the Collections of the
Naval Historical Center.
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