Image:EasternSolomonsEnterpriseBurning.jpg
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EasternSolomonsEnterpriseBurning.jpg (600 × 458 pixel, file size: 35 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
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This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. The description on its description page there is shown below. |
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Summary
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Enterprise CV-6 heels over violently during the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, 24 August 1942. A fire fed by burning powder flares brightly in her Group 3 5" gun gallery (starboard-side aft), set off by a Japanese bomb that killed 38 men. |
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US Government ( http://www.cv6.org/noumea/default.asp?uri=detail/awo-img-z--1000069&ref=August+1942) Although from a commercial site that lists the source of this photo as Arnold W. Olson, the photo is an enlargement of: Image:Enterprise hit eastern solomon-Aug42.jpg in Wikimedia Commons which identifies the photo as a US Government public domain image. |
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May 25, 2006 |
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US Government |
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US Government/public domain |
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This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States Federal Government under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code. See Copyright. Note: This only applies to works of the Federal Government and not to the work of any individual U.S. state, territory, commonwealth, county, municipality, or any other subdivision. العربية | Česky | Deutsch | Español | 한국어 | Italiano | 日本語 | Magyar | Français | Português | 简体中文 | 正體中文 | +/- < |
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- Guadalcanal campaign
- Battle of the Eastern Solomons
