File:Yamashiro Surigao Strait.jpg

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English: Imperial Japanese Navy battleship Yamashiro or Fusō under air attack by aircraft from the United States Navy aircraft carrier Enterprise hours before the Battle of Surigao Strait during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Yamashiro was damaged by several near-misses during this attack. Tully states that this photo is of Yamashiro but Bruning says that it is Fusō.
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Source Bruning, John R., Jr., Ship Strike Pacific, (2005), Zenith Press, p. 96; Tully, Anthony p., Battle of Surigao Strait, (2009), Indiana University Press, p. 139.
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