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File:Damaged 127mm gun on USS Enterprise (CV-6), circa in August 1942.jpg

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English: view of the 5"/38 Mark 12 dual-purpose gun number No.5 of III. battery on the aft-starboard side of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CV-6), circa in late August 1942. This battery was heavily damaged by the 2nd bomb-hit during the Battle of the Eastern Solomons on 24 August 1942. 38 crewmembers died including Photographer's Mate Robert F. Read. 10 of them were never identified.
Date circa August 1942
date QS:P,+1942-08-00T00:00:00Z/10,P1480,Q5727902
Source U.S. Navy photo [1] from cv6.org
Author William T. Barr, U.S. Navy
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(Reusing this file)		 US Government (http://www.cv6.org/noumea/default.asp?uri=detail/barr-img-291&ref=August+1942) Although from a commercial site that lists the source of this photo as William T. Barr, William Barr was a US Navy photographer (source: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cocoon/vhp-stories/loc.natlib.afc2001001.10509/transcript?ID=sr0001) performing official duties for the US government which makes this and any other photo he took during this time original works of the US Government. Original works of the US Government are public domain documents.

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