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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: SC 243636

USS Savannah (CL-42)


Afire immediately after she was hit by a German guided bomb during the Salerno operation, 11 September 1943.
Smoke is pouring from the bomb's impact hole atop the ship's number three 6"/47 gun turret.

Photograph from the Army Signal Corps Collection in the U.S. National Archives.

Online Image: 73KB; 740 x 610 pixels

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6 May 2002