File:USS Ellet (DD-398) passes a crashed Mitsubishi G4M floating off Tulagi on 8 August 1942 (80-G-19205).jpg
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English: Crewmen of the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Ellet (DD-398) look at the floating wreckage of a Japanese Navy Mitsubishi G4M Type 1 land attack plane (Allied code name "Betty"), which crashed during the aerial torpedo attack on the Allied invasion force off Tulagi Island on 8 August 1942. Surviving Japanese crewmen sat on the wings and had fired their pistols on the approaching destroyer before turning the weapons on themselves. |
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| current | 06:20, 10 June 2019 | | 5,699 × 4,083 (8.2 MB) | Cobatfor (talk | contribs) | photo from the same occasion to prevent duplication of File:Crashed Mitsubishi G4M floating off Tulagi on 8 August 1942 (80-G-K-383).jpg |
| 22:22, 8 March 2008 |  | 740 × 578 (137 KB) | Mbdortmund (talk | contribs) | ||
| 15:20, 25 July 2006 |  | 740 × 600 (146 KB) | Cla68 (talk | contribs) | Photo #: 80-G-K-383 (Color) Guadalcanal-Tulagi Operation, 7-9 August 1942 Largely intact floating wreckage of a Japanese Navy Type 1 land attack plane (a type later code named "Betty"), which crashed during the aerial torpedo attack on the Allied invasi |
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