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26 October 1944date QS:P571,+1944-10-26T00:00:00Z/11
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Aerial of US invasion of Engebi Island in Eniwetok atoll. Flares (left) signal fleet to lift bombardment so that...
General notes: Wrong description: 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 cruis
Photograph by Wayne F. Miller
