A largely intact floating wreckage of a Japanese Navy Mitsubishi G4M Type 1 land attack plane (Allied code name "Betty"), which crashed during the aerial torpedo attack on the Allied invasion force off Tulagi Island on 8 August 1942. The photo was taken from the U.S. Navy destroyer USS <i>Ellet</i> (DD-398).
8 August 1942
U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command photo <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.history.navy.mil/content/history/nhhc/our-collections/photography/numerical-list-of-images/nara-series/80-g-k/80-G-K-00001/80-G-K-383.html">80-G-K-383</a>