Skip to main content
Please check our Hours of Operation page before planning your visit. Click on red bar for more information.
[X]

80-G-270614: USS Suwannee (CVE-27), October 26, 1944

80-G-270614: USS Suwannee (CVE-27), October 26, 1944. Crash of Japanese “Zero” kamikaze on USS Suwannee (CVE-27) on the forward flight deck while off Samar. Note the F6F flying away from the explosion. Photographed from USS Sangamon (CVE-26). Official U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
Download Image:
Low (PNG, 319x319px, 61KB)
Med (JPEG, 1280x1280px, 225KB)
High Res (JPEG, 3292x2238px, 548KB)
Caption: 80-G-270614: USS Suwannee (CVE-27), October 26, 1944. Crash of Japanese “Zero” kamikaze on USS Suwannee (CVE-27) on the forward flight deck while off Samar. Note the F6F flying away from the explosion. Photographed from USS Sangamon (CVE-26). Official U.S. Navy photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
Related Content
Topic
  • People-Places-Things--Japanese
Document Type
  • Photograph
Wars & Conflicts
  • World War II 1939-1945
Navy Communities
File Formats
  • Image (gif, jpg, tiff)
Location of Archival Materials
  • National Museum of the U.S. Navy
Author Name
Place of Event
Recipient Name