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Japanese bomb exploded off port side of Enterprise during Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 26 Oct 1942	Japanese pilot Shigeyuki Sato in a D3A dive bomber plunging toward USS Hornet during Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 26 Oct 1942; note B5N torpedo bomber in level flight and splash from anti-aircraft shell burst in front of Hornet	Mahan maneuvering near a battleship and a destroyer, Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 26 Oct 1942	Type 00 Fighters prepare for launch from the Shokaku, Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 26 Oct 1942

USS Enterprise (left), USS Portland (center), and USS South Dakota (center-right) in action during Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 26 Oct 1942; note at least two Japanese aircraft above USS Enterprise, and USS South Dakota firing her secondary battery	USS South Dakota firing anti-aircraft guns and a Japanese Type 97 B5N2 torpedo bomber with its torpedo already expended, Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands, 26 Oct 1942	Auxiliary Aircraft Carrier USS Bogue in Measure 21 paint scheme underway in Puget Sound, Washington, United States, 27 Oct 1942.	US carrier Ranger maneuvering with a destroyer escort in the central Atlantic, 27 Oct 1942. Note the stacks rotated to the horizontal for flight operations.

Destroyer USS Shaw transferring survivors of sunken destroyer USS Porter to battleship USS South Dakota (foreground) while underway toward Efate, New Hebrides, 28 Oct 1942.	First aircraft landing aboard USS Bogue, 30 Oct 1942 in Puget Sound, Washington, United States. The plane is a Curtiss SOC-3A Seagull flown by Bogue’s first Air Officer, Commander Jack Monroe.	Carrier Ryuho in Tokyo Bay, Japan, Nov 1942	Close-up of some of HMS King George V's anti-aircraft weapons, Nov 1942

Crews inspecting midship torpedo damage to the heavy cruiser USS Chester in the Sutherland drydock at Cockatoo Island Dockyard, Sydney, Australia, Nov 1942.	Damage to Shokaku's flight deck and hangar after the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands, late-Oct or Nov 1942	Damage to Shokaku's flight deck and upper part of the hangar after the Battle of Santa Cruz Islands, late-Oct or Nov 1942	Major General George Patton on the decks of the USS Augusta while crossing the Atlantic en route to the North African landings of Operation Torch, Oct-Nov 1942

Plan for making a recognition model for German light cruiser Köln, probably prepared by the US Navy's Office of Naval Intelligence, Nov 1942	Quad-mount of 1.1”/75 anti-aircraft guns aboard USS Ranger during Operation Torch off the coast of West Africa, Nov 1942.	Recognition drawing for German light cruiser Köln, probably prepared by the US Navy's Office of Naval Intelligence	South Dakota, DD Mahan, DD Lamson repaired by USS Prometheus at Nouméa, New Caledonia, Nov 1942