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Photo #: NH 102095
USS Enterprise (CV-6)
Fighting fires in the ship's starboard after 5"/38 gun gallery,
after it was hit by a Japanese bomb during the Battle of the
Eastern Solomons, 24 August 1942.
Note firefighting foam on deck and displaced waterway covers.
Collection of Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, USN.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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