File:B6N drops torpedo off USS Essex (CV-9) in October 1944.jpg

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Description An Imperial Japanese Navy Nakajima B6N ("Jill") releases its torpedo off the starboard bow of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Essex (CV-9) off Formosa on 14 October 1944. In the background are the battleship USS Alabama (BB-60), right, and a destroyer, center.
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Source U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No. 1983.046.010.034
Author U.S. Navy (the image is part of an album of photographs collected by Captain Carlos W. Wieber during his command of the aircraft carrier USS Essex (CV-9) during 1944-1945).

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