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| Caption | Burned out nose section of a PBY-3 Catalina destroyed on 7 Dec 1941 at Midway by shelling from Japanese destroyers Ushio and Sazanami covering the retirement of the Pearl Harbor strike force. ww2dbase | ||||||||
| WW2-Era Location Name | Sand Island, Midway, US Pacific Islands | ||||||||
| Date | 8 Dec 1941 | ||||||||
| Photographer | Unknown | ||||||||
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| Source | ww2dbaseUnited States Navy | ||||||||
| Identification Code | 80-G-2299 | ||||||||
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| Licensing | 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". Please contact us regarding any inaccuracies with the above information. Thank you. |
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| Added By | David Stubblebine | ||||||||
| Photo Size | 740 x 551 pixels | ||||||||
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