Air Attack on T.F. 58: Jap Planes Shot Down; USS Washington (BB-56) Fires AA Guns, 06/13/1944
Naval Photographic Center film #4856. National Archives description: “1) GV-MS USS WASHINGTON firing AA batteries–excellent.2) MS Japanese planes pass CV, many tracers.3) GV Flaming Japanese plane crashes into water.4) MS Flaming Japanese plane flies thru air.(good).5) MS WASHINGTON firing AA guns, tracers, night action, (good).6) LS Japanese plane passes in cloud of tracers, dives into sea.7) LS Japanese planes crash into sea off bow of CV. flak bursts in air. 2Vs.8) LS Japanese plane in flames amidst AA bursts, CVL, DD FG.9) LS-Pan BB, CV & CVL, flak bursts in air.” National Archives Identifier: 77245
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