MAKE A MEME View Large Image CapeEsperanceBoise2.jpg Sailor W R Martin points out details of the Japanese trophy flags painted on the cruiser's pilothouse as a scoreboard of enemy ships claimed sunk in the Battle of Cape Esperance 11-12 October 1942 The six Japanese ...
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Keywords: CapeEsperanceBoise2.jpg Sailor W R Martin points out details of the Japanese trophy flags painted on the cruiser's pilothouse as a scoreboard of enemy ships claimed sunk in the Battle of Cape Esperance 11-12 October 1942 The six Japanese ships two heavy cruisers a light cruiser and three destroyers represented in this scoreboard greatly overstates the actual enemy losses which were one heavy cruiser Furutaka and one destroyer Fubuki sunk and one heavy cruiser Aoba badly damaged This overclaiming was typical of contemporary night surface actions Photographed at the Philadelphia Navy Yard Pennsylvania soon after Boise arrived there for battle damage repairs in November 1942 Official U S Navy Photograph now in the collections of the National Archives - 80-G-36299 http //www navsource org/archives/04/04047 htm PD-USGov USS Boise CL-47
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