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80-G-270398 Loss of USS Princeton (CVL-23), 24 October 1944

Photo #: 80-G-270398 Loss of USS Princeton (CVL-23), 24 October 1944
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Title: Loss of USS Princeton (CVL-23), 24 October 1944
Description: View of Princeton's port midships area, showing her collapsed forward aircraft elevator and shattered flight deck, the results of explosions in her hangar deck following a Japanese bomb hit off the Philippines on 24 October 1944. Photographed from USS Birmingham (CL-62), which was coming alongside to assist with firefighting. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
Catalog #: 80-G-270398
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