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Japanese D3A dive bomber being shot down over USS Enterprise during the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, 24 Aug 1942	View from a USAAF B-17 bomber of Japanese destroyer Tokitsukaze (right, slowly backing away from the carrier) evacuating crew of the disabled carrier Ryujo (left, immobile), Battle of the Eastern Solomons, 24 Aug 1942

View from a USAAF B-17 bomber of Japanese destroyers Amatsukaze (bottom, sailing at speed) and Tokitsukaze (right, slowly backing away from the carrier) evacuating crew of the disabled carrier Ryujo (center, immobile), Battle of the Eastern Solomons, 24 Aug 1942, photo 1 of 3	View from a USAAF B-17 bomber of Japanese destroyers Amatsukaze (bottom, sailing at speed) and Tokitsukaze (right, slowly backing away from the carrier) evacuating crew of the disabled carrier Ryujo (center, immobile), Battle of the Eastern Solomons, 24 Aug 1942, photo 2 of 3

View from a USAAF B-17 bomber of Japanese destroyers Amatsukaze (bottom, sailing at speed) and Tokitsukaze (right, slowly backing away from the carrier) evacuating crew of the disabled carrier Ryujo (center, immobile), Battle of the Eastern Solomons, 24 Aug 1942, photo 3 of 3	View from a USAAF B-17 bomber of Japanese destroyers Amatsukaze (center, sailing at speed) and Tokitsukaze (top right, slowly backing away from the carrier) evacuating crew of the disabled carrier Ryujo (top center, immobile), Battle of the Eastern Solomons, 24 Aug 1942; note heavy cruiser Tone underway at right edge of the photograph, photo 1 of 2

View from a USAAF B-17 bomber of Japanese destroyers Amatsukaze (center, sailing at speed) and Tokitsukaze (top right, slowly backing away from the carrier) evacuating crew of the disabled carrier Ryujo (top center, immobile), Battle of the Eastern Solomons, 24 Aug 1942; note heavy cruiser Tone underway at right edge of the photograph, photo 2 of 2	View from a USAAF B-17 bomber of Japanese destroyers Amatsukaze (just out of view, wake seen at bottom) and Tokitsukaze (bottom right, slowly backing away from the carrier) evacuating crew of the disabled carrier Ryujo (bottom center, immobile), Battle of the Eastern Solomons, 24 Aug 1942; note a stick of five falling bombs at top right and another stick of four falling bombs at center

View from a USAAF B-17 bomber of Japanese heavy cruiser Tone, Battle of the Eastern Solomons, 24 Aug 1942	Commanding officer of Gato-class submarine USS Silversides Lieutenant Commander C.C. Burlingame on the bridge in foul weather gear with a corn-cob pipe, sometime in 1942.

African-American mess attendants take their turn at a 20mm gun during gunnery training on Aircraft Transport USS Copahee during transit from California to Pearl Harbor, 9 Sep 1942. Note TBF Avengers on the flight deck.	Wasp (Wasp-class) burning and listing after being torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-19 in the South Pacific, 15 Sep 1942. Photo 1 of 2.

Wasp (Wasp-class) burning and listing after being torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-19 in the South Pacific, 15 Sep 1942. Photo 2 of 2.	Vice Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher, commander of Task Force 61 in support of the Guadalcanal landings, aboard his flagship USS Saratoga, 17 Sep 1942. Photo 1 of 2.

Vice Admiral Frank Jack Fletcher, commander of Task Force 61 in support of the Guadalcanal landings, aboard his flagship USS Saratoga, 17 Sep 1942. Photo 2 of 2.	Photograph through the periscope of USS Skipjack of the torpedoed and sinking 7,000-ton freighter Shunko Maru 350 miles southwest of Truk, 14 Oct 1942.

Light cruiser USS Atlanta coming alongside heavy cruiser USS San Francisco for refueling, 16 Oct 1942. Note Atlanta's main forward batteries of three turrets of twin 5-inch/38 guns.	A D3A1 dive bomber about to crash into the sea near USS San Diego, Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 26 Oct 1942; seen in 15 Apr 1943 issue of US Navy publication Naval Aviation News

A6M2 Model 21 Zero fighter of Lieutenant Hideki Shingo preparing to take off from carrier Shokaku during Battle of Santa Cruz, 26 Oct 1942	Bomb from Shigeyuki Sato’s Aichi D3A ‘Val’ dive bomber exploding on the deck of USS Hornet (Yorktown-class) during Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 26 Oct 1942.