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Port view of USS Pompon off Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 18 Nov 1944	Stern view of USS Pompon off Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 18 Nov 1944

A column of smoke 500 feet wide rising from the burning fleet oiler USS Mississinewa after being struck by the first Japanese Kaiten deployed, Ulithi Atoll, 30 Nov 1944. Light carrier USS Langley is in the foreground.	A destroyer escort dropping depth charges on a second Japanese Kaiten in the cruiser anchorage of Ulithi Lagoon on 20 Nov 1944 after the sinking of USS Mississinewa. Seen from USS Bunker Hill. Photo 1 of 3.

A destroyer escort dropping depth charges on a second Japanese Kaiten in the cruiser anchorage of Ulithi Lagoon on 20 Nov 1944 after the sinking of USS Mississinewa. Seen from USS Bunker Hill. Photo 2 of 3.	A destroyer escort dropping depth charges on a second Japanese Kaiten in the cruiser anchorage of Ulithi Lagoon on 20 Nov 1944 after the sinking of USS Mississinewa. Seen from USS Bunker Hill. Photo 3 of 3.

Smoke plume from the burning oiler USS Mississinewa in Ulithi Lagoon as seen from the battleship USS South Dakota, 20 Nov 1944. Carriers in the foreground are Bunker Hill and Langley (Independence-class).	Smoke rising from the overturned and burning fleet oiler USS Mississinewa in Ulithi Lagoon, 20 Nov 1944 as seen from the carrier Lexington (Essex-class). Ticonderoga is at left and hospital ship Solace is at right.

USS Puffer in Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 20 Nov 1944, photo 1 of 2	USS Puffer in Mare Island Naval Shipyard, California, United States, 20 Nov 1944, photo 2 of 2

F6F-5N Hellcat night fighter with Night Fighting Squadron VFN-42 crashed against the island and Number 3 stack of Light Carrier USS Bataan off Hawaii, 21 Nov 1944. Note the array of radio and radar antennae.	USS North Carolina at Ulithi, Caroline Islands, 21 Nov 1944

USS North Carolina at Ulithi, Caroline Islands, 21 Nov 1944	Battleship Massachusetts sailing into Ulithi anchorage in the Caroline Islands, 24 Nov 1944; note autograph of Chester Nimitz

Captain George DeBaun (center) relieving Captain Herbert Taylor (left) as the commanding officer of USS Cowpens, 24 Nov 1944; note Commander Hugh Nieman at right side of photograph	Monterey at Ulithi Atoll, Caroline Islands, 24 Nov 1944

A Japanese D4Y Suisei fighter splashing into the sea after being shot down during an attack on the American fleet as seen from USS Essex, 25 Nov 1944. Note battleship USS South Dakota and US fighter in level flight	A Japanese special attack aircraft exploding upon hitting USS Intrepid in the Pacific Ocean off Philippine Islands, 25 Nov 1944

A special attack aircraft exploding on the flight deck of USS Intrepid as seen from the catwalks, off the Philippine Islands, 25 Nov 1944	Anti-aircraft crew member of USS New Jersey watching a special attack aircraft diving into USS Intrepid, 25 Nov 1944; note OS2U Kingfisher float plane on the port catapult