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Photo 1 of 4 showing the last moments for the Japanese 5,000-ton cargo ship Shoun Maru as the result of a torpedo attack by a TBM Avenger flying from USS White Plains, Sasanhaya Bay, Rota, Mariana Islands, 24 Jun 1943.Photo 2 of 4 showing the last moments for the Japanese 5,000-ton cargo ship Shoun Maru as the result of a torpedo attack by a TBM Avenger flying from USS White Plains, Sasanhaya Bay, Rota, Mariana Islands, 24 Jun 1943.
Photo 1 of 4 showing the last moments for the Japanese 5,000-ton cargo ship Shoun Maru as the result of a torpedo attack by a TBM Avenger flying from USS White Plains, Sasanhaya Bay, Rota, Mariana Islands, 24 Jun 1943.Photo 2 of 4 showing the last moments for the Japanese 5,000-ton cargo ship Shoun Maru as the result of a torpedo attack by a TBM Avenger flying from USS White Plains, Sasanhaya Bay, Rota, Mariana Islands, 24 Jun 1943.
Photo 3 of 4 showing the last moments for the Japanese 5,000-ton cargo ship Shoun Maru as the result of a torpedo attack by a TBM Avenger flying from USS White Plains, Sasanhaya Bay, Rota, Mariana Islands, 24 Jun 1943.Photo 4 of 4 showing the last moments for the Japanese 5,000-ton cargo ship Shoun Maru as the result of a torpedo attack by a TBM Avenger flying from USS White Plains, Sasanhaya Bay, Rota, Mariana Islands, 24 Jun 1943.
Photo 3 of 4 showing the last moments for the Japanese 5,000-ton cargo ship Shoun Maru as the result of a torpedo attack by a TBM Avenger flying from USS White Plains, Sasanhaya Bay, Rota, Mariana Islands, 24 Jun 1943.Photo 4 of 4 showing the last moments for the Japanese 5,000-ton cargo ship Shoun Maru as the result of a torpedo attack by a TBM Avenger flying from USS White Plains, Sasanhaya Bay, Rota, Mariana Islands, 24 Jun 1943.


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A Mark XIII aerial torpedo with wooden shroud rings fore and aft being loaded from a boat into the starboard bomb bay (in the engine nacelle) of a PBM Mariner patrol aircraft, probably 1945 in the Pacific.

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