Almost immediately, just after midnight, the U.S. Navy destroyer group spotted the Imperial Japanese Navy destroyers Take and Kuwa. The three ruthlessly bombarded both targets and set two ships ablaze ...

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Lieutenant Commander Horace Bristol photographed Rescue at Rabaul: PBY Blister Gunner during the Allied invasion of Rabaul, a Japanese-occupied port in Papua New Guinea. When one of the planes was ...

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IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Radar, twin .50 caliber guns in a ...