Japanese flak bursts over Truk 1944
Bursts of Japanese anti-aricraft shells over Truk taken by a plane from the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CV-6).
- Date
- 1944-02-16
- Photographer / author
- U.S. Navy (Item part of a scrapbook assembled by CDR William H. Balden, USNR, documenting his World War II service)
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- image
- Original size
- 1,311 × 1,004 pixels
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Reason: a US government work (US Navy).
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