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| Japanese bomb exploded off port side of Enterprise during Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 26 Oct 1942 | Japanese pilot Shigeyuki Sato in a D3A dive bomber plunging toward USS Hornet during Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 26 Oct 1942; note B5N torpedo bomber in level flight and splash from anti-aircraft shell burst in front of Hornet |
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| Mahan maneuvering near a battleship and a destroyer, Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 26 Oct 1942 | Type 00 Fighters prepare for launch from the Shokaku, Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 26 Oct 1942 |
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| USS Enterprise (left), USS Portland (center), and USS South Dakota (center-right) in action during Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 26 Oct 1942; note at least two Japanese aircraft above USS Enterprise, and USS South Dakota firing her secondary battery | USS South Dakota firing anti-aircraft guns and a Japanese Type 97 B5N2 torpedo bomber with its torpedo already expended, Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 26 Oct 1942 |
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| Auxiliary Aircraft Carrier USS Bogue in Measure 21 paint scheme underway in Puget Sound, Washington, United States, 27 Oct 1942. | US carrier Ranger maneuvering with a destroyer escort in the central Atlantic, 27 Oct 1942. Note the stacks rotated to the horizontal for flight operations. |
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| Destroyer USS Shaw transferring survivors of sunken destroyer USS Porter to battleship USS South Dakota (foreground) while underway toward Efate, New Hebrides, 28 Oct 1942. | First aircraft landing aboard USS Bogue, 30 Oct 1942 in Puget Sound, Washington, United States. The plane is a Curtiss SOC-3A Seagull flown by Bogue’s first Air Officer, Commander Jack Monroe. |
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| Carrier Ryuho in Tokyo Bay, Japan, Nov 1942 | Close-up of some of HMS King George V's anti-aircraft weapons, Nov 1942 |
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| Crews inspecting midship torpedo damage to the heavy cruiser USS Chester in the Sutherland drydock at Cockatoo Island Dockyard, Sydney, Australia, Nov 1942. | Damage to Shokaku's flight deck and hangar after the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands, late-Oct or Nov 1942 |
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| Damage to Shokaku's flight deck and upper part of the hangar after the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands, late-Oct or Nov 1942 | Major General George Patton on the decks of the USS Augusta while crossing the Atlantic en route to the North African landings of Operation Torch, Oct-Nov 1942 |
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| Plan for making a recognition model for German light cruiser Köln, probably prepared by the US Navy's Office of Naval Intelligence, Nov 1942 | Quad-mount of 1.1”/75 anti-aircraft guns aboard USS Ranger during Operation Torch off the coast of West Africa, Nov 1942. |
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| Recognition drawing for German light cruiser Köln, probably prepared by the US Navy's Office of Naval Intelligence | South Dakota, DD Mahan, DD Lamson repaired by USS Prometheus at Nouméa, New Caledonia, Nov 1942 |
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