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Task Force Shelling Cape Gloucester, New Britain Island, 12/25/1943
About this film
Naval Photographic Center film #1306. National Archives description " "1) LS Task force, spotty-SV. LS Australian 3-stack cruiser. 2) SCU Night action, 6" gun flash-SV. 3) LS Sunset, CL fires 6" gun FG-SV. 4) LS 3 CLs fire-SV. MS USS Phoenix fires, shaky. 5) SHS Sailors stack empty 6" shells. LS DD, CLs-SV. 6) LS SS Australia, SS Shropshire [HMS Shropshire], USS Phoenix-SV. 7) HS MS Sailors lounge, sleep on deck-SV. 8) MS Night action, broad side, tracers-SV. 9) SHS Steam shovel, men with jack borer, lay dynamite etc.-SV. National Archives Identifier: 75939 As always, any error or typo is mine and if you enjoy my uploads or if you intend to make $ or otherwise profit from these files, please consider making a donation to a veteran's charity of your choice and/or Archive.org itself. Thanks.
Directors & creators
United States. Navy
Subjects
WWII, World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval Operations, American, United States. Navy, World War, 1939-1945, USS Phoenix (CL-46), World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Papua New Guinea -- New Britain Island, USS Phoenix, World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Papua New Guinea, HMS Shropshire, HMAS Australia (D84), HMS Shropshire (83), World War II, HMAS Australia, WWII In Color
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