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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

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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21 October 2002