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USMC 104477 Kikuzuki

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Title: Kikuzuki
Description: (Japanese Destroyer, 1926-1942) Beached in Purvis Bay, Florida Island, Solomon Islands, after being salvaged. Photograph is dated December 1944. She had been sunk on 4 May 1942, when USS Yorktown (CV-5) planes raided the Tulagi area. Note her triple 24-inch torpedo tubes (12th Year Type) at right; 12cm/45 caliber gun (3rd Year Type) between her stacks and torpedo reload box alongside the after smokestack. U.S. Marine Corps Photograph.
Catalog #: USMC 104477
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