Lot-9427-3 (LC-USZ62-78606):  U.S. Navy Smashes Japanese Base.  The main battery of a U.S. cruiser, possibly USS Salt Lake City (CA 25) bombards Wake Island while anti-aircraft crew stands by.  During the combined American sea-air attack, one of a series of successful U.S. Navy raids on Japanese-held bases, shore batteries were silenced, and hangars, storerooms, ammunition dumps, gasoline and other fuel stores, patrol boats, several dredges and fueline barges were destroyed.   Photograph released March 1942 by Office of War Information.  Also at NHHC as NH 50946:  USS Salt Lake City (CA-25).  Fires her after 8"/55 guns while bombarding a Japanese-held island in February 1942. This view has long been identified has a scene from the 24 February bombardment of Wake. However, it may have been taken on 1 February, during the bombardment of Wotje, in the Marshall Islands.  Note Curtiss SOC "Seagull" floatplane in the foreground, with the cruiser's after stack and aircraft crane immediately to the right. (2015/11/20).
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