A near miss creates a geyser of watter whitch towers over the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS <i>Enterprise</i> (CV-6) during the Battle of the Eastern Solomons, 24 August 1942. The Japanese Aichi D3A1 <i>Val</i> dive-bomber and its bomb crashed and exploded about 10 m from the ship's starboard side.
U.S. Navy
1942-08-24
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