| Caption | Â Â Â | USS Wasp (Essex-class) with the leading 35 feet of her flight deck collapsed by a typhoon two days earlier, 27 Aug 1945 south of Japan. ww2dbase | ||||||
| Source | Â Â Â | ww2dbaseUnited States Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation | ||||||
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| Photos on Same Day | Â | 27 Aug 1945 | ||||||
| Photos at Same Place | Â | Pacific Ocean | ||||||
| Added By | Â | David Stubblebine | ||||||
| Added Date | Â | 15 Jul 2014 | ||||||
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| Licensing | Â | Public Domain. According to the United States copyright law (United States Code, Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105), in part, "[c]opyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government". | ||||||
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