File:Destroyer rescues men from USS Enterprise (CV-6) in May 1945.jpg

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Description A U.S. Navy Allen M. Sumner-class destroyer rescues sailors standing on a section of an aircraft elevator blown off the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CV-6) after the ship was hit by a kamikaze off Kyushu, Japan.
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Source U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No. 1983.046.010.150
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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