| Caption | LST-480 burning in West Loch, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, 23 May 1944 two days after the West Loch explosion that sank six LSTs. The chain-reaction explosion started on LST-39 whose wreckage is visible off LST-480’s bow. ww2dbase | |||||||||||
| Source | ww2dbaseUnited States Navy | |||||||||||
| Identification Code | 80-G-276945 | |||||||||||
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| Added By | David Stubblebine | |||||||||||
| Added Date | 1 Sep 2016 | |||||||||||
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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". | |||||||||||
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| Lat/Long | 21.3571, -157.9968 |
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