    
Title: USS Essex, November, 1944 Description: The aircraft carrier USS Essex (CV-9), while operating in the northern Philippines, is hit on the port edge of her flight deck by an exploding kamikaze plane; the suicide plane landed among some of Essex's own planes, which had just been gassed for takeoff and extensive damage was done, with fifteen killed and forty-four wounded; the Essex was quickly repaired and rejoined the U.S. task force off Leyte, participating in the occupation of Mindoro, December 16-18, 1944; Date: November 25, 1944 Category: World War II Keywords: aircraft carriers, Japanese warplanes, kamikazes, Philippines Campaign, October 20, 1944-August 9, 1945, Second World War, suicide planes, World War II, WWII Orientation: Landscape Dimensions: 1740 x 876 (1.52 MPixels) (1.99) Print Size: 14.7 x 7.4 cm; 5.8 x 2.9 inches File Size: 4.37 MB (4,579,954 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000010371 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection |
