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Description	A bomb hits aft starboard 5" gun gallery of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CV-6), destroying it and killing almost the entire crew, during the Battle of the Eastern Solomons on 24 August, 1942. This was the second bomb to hit Enterprise during the attack.
Date	24 August 1942
Source	U.S. Navy photo [1] in: The Battles of Savo Island 9 August 1942 and the Eastern Solomons 23-25 August 1942 from the U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command, Department of the Navy, Washington D.C. (USA), 1994
Author	U.S. Navy

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