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English: Imperial Japanese Navy armed transport Kongo Maru burns and sinks off of Lae, New Guinea on March 10, 1942 after an air attack by United States Navy SBD Dauntlesses from VS-5 squadron from the carrier Yorktown.
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Source Scanned from book: Cressman, Robert (2004), That Gallant Ship USS Yorktown (CV-5), Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, p. 74. Naval Historical image #95434
Author PhoM2c Walter C. Goldie

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Aerial photo of the sinking Japanese Navy ship Kongō Maru

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