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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-K-411 (Color)

USS Enterprise (CV-6)

Damage to the starboard quarter 5"/38 gun gallery, resulting from a bomb that hit nearby during the 24 August 1942 Battle of the Eastern Solomons.
Photographed a few days later, after the ship had returned to port.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 160KB; 740 x 610 pixels

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12 November 2001