Image:EasternSolomonsEnterpriseBurning.jpg

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Description

Enterprise CV-6 heels over violently during the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, 24 August 1942. A fire fed by burning powder flares brightly in her Group 3 5" gun gallery (starboard-side aft), set off by a Japanese bomb that killed 38 men.

Source

US Government (http://www.cv6.org/noumea/default.asp?uri=detail/awo-img-z--1000069&ref=August+1942) Although from a commercial site that lists the source of this photo as Arnold W. Olson, the photo is an enlargement of: Image:Enterprise hit eastern solomon-Aug42.jpg in Wikimedia Commons which identifies the photo as a US Government public domain image.

Date

May 25, 2006

Author

US Government

Permission
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US Government/public domain


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Public domain This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States Federal Government under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code. See Copyright.

Note: This only applies to works of the Federal Government and not to the work of any individual U.S. state, territory, commonwealth, county, municipality, or any other subdivision.


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