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| Keywords: Aerial of US invasion of Engebi Island in Eniwetok atoll. Flares (left) signal fleet to lift bombardment so that... - NARA - 520614.jpg A Japanese Mogami-class cruiser under attack by U S Navy aircraft of Carrier Air Group 7 CVG-7 following the Battle of Leyte Gulf 26 October 1944 A Curtiss SB2C-3 Helldiver of Bombing Squadron 7 VB-7 is visible in the upper right of the photograph The cruiser is most probably Kumano which had her bow blown off by a torpedo launched from the destroyer USS Johnston DD-557 during the Battle off Samar on 25 October She was attacked by aircraft of CVG-7 from USS Hancock CV-19 while retreating through the Sibuyan Sea and was struck by three 500 lb 227 kg bombs She survived and sailed to Manila Bay for repairs on her bow and all four boilers On 6 November she was struck by two torpedoes fired from U S submarines and finally sunk by aircraft from USS Ticonderoga CV-14 on 25 November 1944 520614 Local identifier 80-G-47012 Department of Defense Department of the Navy Naval Photographic Center 09/18/1947 - Miller Wayne Photographer 2083745 <br /> Still Picture Records Section Special Media Archives Services Division NWCS-S National Archives at College Park 8601 Adelphi Road College Park MD 20740-6001 1944-10-26 Record group Record Group 80 General Records of the Department of the Navy 1804 - 1983 Record group ARC 409 General Photographic File of the Department of Navy compiled 1943 - 1958 documenting the period 1900 - 1958 Series ARC 520587 File unit File unit ARC Variant control numbers NAIL Control Number NWDNS-80-G-47012 Other versions <gallery> File Aerial_of_US_invasion_of_Engebi_Island_in_Eniwetok_atoll _Flares_ left _signal_fleet_to_lift_bombardment_so_that _-_NARA_-_520614 tif tif File Aerial_of_US_invasion_of_Engebi_Island_in_Eniwetok_atoll _Flares_ left _signal_fleet_to_lift_bombardment_so_that _-_NARA_-_520614 jpg jpg File Japanese cruiser under attack 26 October 1944 jpg jpg </gallery> NARA-cooperation PD-USGov Black and white photographs of World War II Kumano ship 1937 Battle of Leyte Gulf Curtiss SB2C Helldiver | ||||
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