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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 95778

Carrier Raids on Japan, March 1945

USS Essex (CV-9) planes attack two Japanese aircraft carriers at Kure, 19 March 1945. An SB2C "Helldiver" scout bomber is visible in the upper right, painted in Essex markings.
Ship at bottom is either Amagi or Katsuragi. The other carrier is Kaiyo.

Copied from an original photograph in the USS Essex action report for this raid, 1986.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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1 April 1999