U.S. Navy sailor W.R. Martin points out details of the Japanese trophy flags painted on the pilothouse of the light cruiser USS <i>Boise</i> (CL-47) as a scoreboard of enemy ships claimed sunk in the Battle of Cape Esperance, 11-12 October 1942. The six Japanese ships (two heavy cruisers, a light cruiser and three destroyers) represented in this scoreboard greatly overstates the actual enemy losses, which were one heavy cruiser (<i>Furutaka</i>) and one destroyer (<i>Fubuki</i>) sunk and one heavy cruiser (<i>Aoba</i>) badly damaged. This overclaiming was typical of contemporary night surface actions. The photo was taken at the Philadelphia Naval Shipyard, Pennsylvania (USA), soon after <i>Boise</i> arrived there for battle damage repairs in November 1942.
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November 1942<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1942-11-00T00:00:00Z/10</div>
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