Three Japanese oilers burning in Camranh Bay, Indochina. TBM's from the USS Hornet (CV-12) which delivered the fatal bombs fly overhead.
- Date
- 1945-01-12
- Archive
- U.S. National Archives (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Type
- photograph
- Original size
- 3,000 × 2,329 pixels
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