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Removed caption read: Photo # 80-G-44059     Japanese plane crashes near USS Columbia during the Bougainville Campaign, Nov. 1943

Bougainville Operation, November 1943

A Japanese plane plunges into the sea ahead of USS Columbia (CL-56), as she steams in column with other cruisers during the attack on Bougainville, 1-2 November 1943. Note 6"/47 gun turrets, with six-inch shell casings on deck below them.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/sh-usn/usnsh-c/cl56.htm

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