Image:USS Princeton (CVL-23) 1944 10 24 1523explosion.jpg
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The light carrier USS Princeton explodes at 1523 on 24 October 1944 - after being bombed by a Japanese aircraft during the Battle for Leyte Gulf.
The light cruiser USS Birmingham (CL-62) is visible on this side of the Princeton. Birmingham was seriously damaged in the explosion, which caused more than three hundred casualties aboard the cruiser.
The many black dots visible in the photograph are flying debris from the explosion.
[This is an official US Navy photograph, probably taken from the battleship USS South Dakota]
Source: http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/leyteglf/cvl23-l.htm
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| revert | 00:57, 3 January 2008 | 594×704 (79 KB) | Wildsurmise ( Talk | contribs) | ({{PD-USGov-Military-Navy}}—US Navy images The light carrier 'Princeton' explodes on 24 October 1944, after being bombed during the Battle for Leyte Gulf.) |
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