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80-G-328618 USS Bunker Hill (CV-17)

Photo #: 80-G-328618 USS Bunker Hill (CV-17)
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Title: USS Bunker Hill (CV-17)
Description: Burning after being hit by a Kamikaze attack while operating off Okinawa on 11 May 1945. Photographed from USS Wilkes Barre (CL-103), which appears to have received fire damage herself helping to fight the blaze from alongside the carrier. A destroyer is off Bunker Hill's port side. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
Catalog #: 80-G-328618
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