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Title: Name This...(461)
Post by: brady on March 18, 2003, 04:24:27 PM

???

Title: Name This...(461)
Post by: Rasker on March 18, 2003, 04:28:22 PM

boy, I'm guessing the Ben Franklin, knocked her out of the war, but 2 or 3 of the other Essex class carriers were treated equally roughly by the Japanese

Title: Name This...(461)
Post by: ygsmilo on March 18, 2003, 04:31:07 PM

USS Intrepid

Title: Name This...(461)
Post by: udet on March 18, 2003, 04:39:10 PM

Forrestal?

Title: Name This...(461)
Post by: MiloMorai on March 18, 2003, 05:00:01 PM

According to the caption for the same photo in "In Action - Essex Class Carriers" pg 42, it is the USS Bunker Hill, CV-17 after being hit by 2 kamikazes while off Okinawa 11 May 1945.

Title: Name This...(461)
Post by: Staga on March 18, 2003, 05:05:18 PM

Pic No.66 in This Site (http://www.archives.gov/research_room/research_topics/world_war_2_photos/world_war_2_photos.html).

Title: Name This...(461)
Post by: davidpt40 on March 18, 2003, 06:02:20 PM

USS YORKTOWN

Title: Name This...(461)
Post by: MiloMorai on March 18, 2003, 08:18:27 PM

I see I am not believed.;) The 3 photos  of the Bunker Hill have US Gov. ID numbers.

80-G-274266 is as posted by Brady

80-G-323712 and
80-G-259040 are of the flight deck, one during the fire, the afterwards.

Title: Name This...(461)
Post by: SirLoin on March 19, 2003, 05:44:16 PM

Yorktown.

Title: Name This...(461)
Post by: brady on March 19, 2003, 11:46:25 PM

USS Bunker Hill, it is:)

Title: more pictures
Post by: dankes on March 21, 2003, 07:40:31 AM

more

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Title: Name This...(461)
Post by: dankes on March 21, 2003, 07:41:25 AM

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