Image:HieiB17Nov13.gif

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wikimedia Commons logo This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. The description on its description page there is shown below.
Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help.

Summary

B-17s of the 11th Bombardment Group based at Espiritu Santo bomb the damaged Japanese battleship Hiei north of Savo Island on November 13, 1942. Hiei, which was damaged in the 1st engagement of the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal hours earlier, appears to be trailing fuel.

Licensing

Public domain This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States Federal Government under the terms of Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105 of the US Code. See Copyright.

Note: This only applies to works of the Federal Government and not to the work of any individual U.S. state, territory, commonwealth, county, municipality, or any other subdivision. This template also does not apply to postage stamps published by the United States Postal Service after 1978. (See 206.02(b) of Compendium II: Copyright Office Practices).


العربية | Български | Česky | Deutsch | English | Español | Français | Magyar | Italiano | 日本語 | 한국어 | Polski | Português | ‪中文(繁體)‬ | ‪中文(简体)‬ | +/-

File history

Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.

Date/Time Dimensions User Comment
current 17:21, 13 July 2006 520×341 (106 KB) Cla68 (B-17s of the 11th Bombardment Group based at Espiritu Santo bomb the damaged Japanese battleship ''Hiei'' north of Savo Island on November 13, 1942. ''Hiei'', which was damaged in the 1st engagement of the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal hours earlier, appea)
The following pages on Schools Wikipedia link to this image (list may be incomplete):
The Schools Wikipedia is sponsored by SOS Children , and is a hand-chosen selection of article versions from the English Wikipedia edited only by deletion (see www.wikipedia.org for details of authors and sources). See also our Disclaimer.