A burning Japanese torpedo-bomber falls after being knocked down by artillery from American warships.
- Date
- 1943-12-04
- Archive
- U.S. National Archives (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 3,000 × 2,451 pixels
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