File:View through a gunsight of USS Phoenix (CL-46) off Leyte on 21 October 1944 (80-G-291377).jpg
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English: The Australian heavy cruisers HMAS Shropshire, left, and HMAS Australia (D84), right, with a U.S. Navy heavy cruiser, photographed through a ring gun sight on board the light cruiser USS Phoenix (CL-46), off Leyte on 21 October 1944. Due to the Camouflage Measure 32, Design 7d, the third heavy cruiser is most probably USS Portland (CA-33). |
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| Date | 21 October 1944 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| current | 16:24, 2 August 2017 | | 5,689 × 4,507 (5.67 MB) | Cobatfor (talk | contribs) | high-res file to avoid quadruplication of File:Gun crews aboard USS Phoenix (CL-46) during the Mindoro invasion, 18 December 1944 (80-G-47471).jpg |
| 11:06, 1 August 2008 |  | 740 × 599 (118 KB) | Felix Stember (talk | contribs) | {{Information |Description= USS Phoenix (CL-46): Crewmen at port side midships 5"/25, 20mm and 40mm anti-aircraft guns strain to identify a plane flying overhead, during the Mindoro invasion, 18 December 1944. This was a time of intense Kamikaze attacks, |
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