File:Crewmen fight fire on USS Enterprise (CV-6) on 24 August 1942 (NH 102096).jpg

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Description Crewmen fighting fires in the starboard after 5/38 gun gallery of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CV-6), after it was hit by a Japanese bomb during the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, 24 August 1942. Note hole in the flight deck at the bottom of the photo, the result of another bomb hit.
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Source Official U.S. Navy photo NH 102096 from the U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command
Author U.S. Navy

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