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Archive for October 2025

Kamikazes “Body Crash” USS Franklin and USS Belleau Wood

By Glenn | October 30, 2025 | 0
Two carriers burning after separate kamikaze strikes. USS Franklin (CV-13), at right, and USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24) afire after being hit by Japanese kamikaze suicide planes, while operating off the Philippines on 30 October 1944. Photographed from USS Brush (DD-745). US Navy 80-G-326798

USS Belleau Wood (CVL-24) left, and USS Franklin (CV-13) right, on fire after being struck by kamikazes 30 October, 1944.

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Websites Essential to Researching U.S. Navy Ships and Crews

By Glenn | October 14, 2025 | 0
A group of US Navy officers including women who are WAVES attend the commissioning of the USS Franklin, 14 October 1943. The picture shows a vew of the ship's bow, wrapped in bunting taken from a lower angle so the bow looms overhead.

US Navy WAVES shown at the christening of USS Franklin on 14 October 1943.

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Accurate Information Is The Lifeblood of Effective Decision-making

By Glenn | October 10, 2025 | 0
The Japanese battleship Musashi down at the bow after being hit by U.S. Navy carrier plane attacks in the Sibuyan Sea. Courtesy of Lieutenant Tobei Shiraishi. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. Catalog #: NH 63434

IJN Musashi, down in the bow while under attack by Task Force 38 aircraft, including those from USS Franklin

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