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| Crew of Shokaku fighting fires during Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 26 Oct 1942 | Cruiser USS Northampton making preparations to take the stricken USS Hornet (Yorktown-class) under tow, Battle of Santa Cruz Islands, 26 Oct 1942. Note destroyer USS Russell alongside Hornet's port side. Photo 1 of 2. |
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| Cruiser USS Northampton making preparations to take the stricken USS Hornet (Yorktown-class) under tow, Battle of Santa Cruz Islands, 26 Oct 1942. Note destroyer USS Russell alongside Hornet's port side. Photo 1 of 2. | Damage to Hornet's smokestack and signal bridge at Battle of Santa Cruz Islands, 26 Oct 1942 |
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| Destroyer USS Russell coming alongside the stricken USS Hornet (Yorktown-class) in one of the last photographs of the carrier before she was scuttled, Battle of Santa Cruz Islands, 26 Oct 1942. | Destroyer USS Russell coming alongside the stricken USS Hornet (Yorktown-class) with cruiser USS Northampton standing off (right), Battle of Santa Cruz Islands, 26 Oct 1942. Photo 1 of 2. |
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| Destroyer USS Russell coming alongside the stricken USS Hornet (Yorktown-class) with cruiser USS Northampton standing off (right), Battle of Santa Cruz Islands, 26 Oct 1942. Photo 2 of 2. | Gun crews aboard USS South Dakota man their 40mm Bofors anti-aircraft guns during the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands, 26 Oct 1942 |
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| Japanese bomb exploded off port side of Enterprise during Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 26 Oct 1942 | Japanese pilot Shigeyuki Sato in a D3A dive bomber plunging toward USS Hornet during Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 26 Oct 1942; note B5N torpedo bomber in level flight and splash from anti-aircraft shell burst in front of Hornet |
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| Mahan maneuvering near a battleship and a destroyer, Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 26 Oct 1942 | Track chart of Japanese forces during Battle of Santa Cruz, 25-26 Oct 1942; Annex A of Commander Okumiya's interrogation |
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| Troops abandoning ship after the converted luxury liner SS President Coolidge struck two mines while entering the harbor at Espiritu Santo, New Hebrides, 26 Oct 1942. Only 2 men were lost out of over 5,000. | Type 00 Fighters prepare for launch from the Shokaku, Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 26 Oct 1942 |
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| USS Enterprise in action during Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 25-27 Oct 1942 | USS South Dakota firing anti-aircraft guns and a Japanese Type 97 B5N2 torpedo bomber with its torpedo already expended, Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 26 Oct 1942 |
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| Auxiliary Aircraft Carrier USS Bogue in Measure 21 paint scheme underway in Puget Sound, Washington, United States, 27 Oct 1942. | US carrier Ranger maneuvering with a destroyer escort in the central Atlantic, 27 Oct 1942. Note the stacks rotated to the horizontal for flight operations. |
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| Destroyer USS Shaw transferring survivors of sunken destroyer USS Porter to battleship USS South Dakota (foreground) while underway toward Efate, New Hebrides, 28 Oct 1942. | Two Germans ensuring that this group of massacred Ukrainian Jews were indeed all dead, near Mizocz, Ukraine, Oct 1942 |
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