Five-inch gun on fire aboard the USS Franklin
Official U.S. Navy Photograph, Gift of Mary Noble, from The collection of the National WWII Museum
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"File no: 3327-14. For Release: 9 P.M. Thursday, 17 May 1945. Inferno at Sea-- USS Franklin's trial by fire. A crown of flame mantles one of the five-inch gun mounts on the Franklin, with jets of fie flickering out of the muzzles of the twin cannon. Crewmen aboard the cruiser Santa Fe extinguished the blaze by playing streams of water through the open hatch." Off the Ryukyu Islands. 19 March 1945
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Official U.S. Navy Photographs collected by navy veteran John R. Noble, who served in the Pacific on the USS Castor and the USS Fletcher during World War II.
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Nansei-shoto
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War damage--Pacific Ocean
Fires--Pacific Ocean