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80-G-490019 Japanese "Kamikaze" aircraft

Photo #: 80-G-490019 Japanese "Kamikaze" aircraft
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Title: Japanese "Kamikaze" aircraft
Description: Photo #: 80-G-490019 Japanese Kamikaze aircraft Burning after it was hit by gunfire while attempting to crash into USS Vicksburg (CL-86) off Okinawa, 14 May 1945. Photographed from Vicksburg's forward superstructure, with the ship's foremast yardarm in the foreground. Note weather reporting instrument on the yardarm, and the antenna for an SK-1 air search radar partially visible at right. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
Catalog #: 80-G-490019
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