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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 102096

USS Enterprise (CV-6)


Crewmen 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 hole in the flight deck at the bottom of the photo, the result of another bomb hit.

Collection of Admiral Thomas C. Kinkaid, USN.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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21 December 2001