File:USS Smith (DD-378) is hit by a torpedo plane during Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands 1942.jpg

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Description The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Smith (DD-378) is hit by a crashing Japanese torpedo plane, during an attack on USS Enterprise (CV-6), Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 26 October 1942.
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Source Official U.S. Navy photo 80-G-33333 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command
Author U.S. Navy, photographed from USS South Dakota (BB-57).

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current08:16, 1 April 2016Thumbnail for version as of 08:16, 1 April 20163,840 × 2,867 (3.84 MB)Cobatfor (talk | contribs)new NHHC file
16:44, 17 June 2006Thumbnail for version as of 16:44, 17 June 2006740 × 575 (58 KB)Cla68 (talk | contribs)''USS Smith'' (DD-378) is hit by a crashing Japanese torpedo plane, during an attack on ''USS Enterprise'', 26 October 1942. Photographed from USS South Dakota. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. U.S. Naval