Sinking of SS Cynthia Olson
Sinking of American cargo ship S.S. Cynthia Olson. This ship was sunk by gunfire from Japanese submarine I-26 on the same day as the attack on Pearl Harbor. This valuable photograph was taken by Saburo Hayashi, gunnery officer of Japanese submarine I-26.
- Date
- 1941-12-08
- Photographer / author
- 林三郎 / Saburo Hayashi (crew Japanese submarine I-26)
- Archive
- Wikimedia Commons
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 882 × 439 pixels
Public domain
Reason: public domain: 1996 (with a reason).
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Read from: Commons licence category: PD-1996 (with a reason); no CC BY, CC BY-SA, GFDL or deletion tag on the file page.
Credit line
"Sinking of SS Cynthia Olson" (1941-12-08). 林三郎 / Saburo Hayashi (crew Japanese submarine I-26), via Wikimedia Commons. Public domain. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sinking_of_SS_Cynthia_Olson.JPGNeed photos for a whole script? Add Find Any Photo to Claude and ask for this one by its id: 2043.
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