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The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Stewart (DD-224) being sunk as a target off California on 24 May 1946. Three aircraft, two Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat and a Vought F4U Corsair, attack her with rockets. Their steep angle of approach so close to the surface, and close spacing between them, strongly indicates that this is a composite photograph.

Stewart had been captured by the Japanese damaged and sunk in a floating drydock at Surabaya, Java. She was reparied and commissioned as Patrol Boat No. 102 on 20 September 1943. The ship was found laid up by U.S. occupation forces and recommissioned on 29 October 1945 as DD-224, as USS Stewart (DE-238) was active with the U.S. Navy. Note that she wears both the Japanese hull number "P102" as the U.S. Navy hull number "224" on this photo. Stewart was transferred back to the U.S., but had to be towed before reaching Guam as her machinery gave out.
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Source U.S. Navy All Hands magazine July 1946, p. 50; official U.S. Navy photo 80-G-702830 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command
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