Crippled U.S. Aircraft Carrier Completes Saga Of Sea -- On March 19, 1945, the U.S.S. Franklin, an Essex-class carrier was hit by enemy bombs while participating in air strikes against the Japanese fleet in the enemys Inland Sea. Operating less than 60 miles (96 kms.) from the Japanese coast, with many of her planes fully armed and fuelled, the carrier was attacked by a Japanese dive-bomber which scored two hits with quarter-ton armor-piercing bombs. The ship was soon an inferno of flames with

Crippled U.S. Aircraft Carrier Completes Saga Of Sea -- On March 19, 1945, the U.S.S. Franklin, an Essex-class carrier was hit by enemy bombs while participating in air strikes against the Japanese fleet in the enemys Inland Sea. Operating less than 60 miles (96 kms.) from the Japanese coast, with many of her planes fully armed and fuelled, the carrier was attacked by a Japanese dive-bomber which scored two hits with quarter-ton armor-piercing bombs. The ship was soon an inferno of flames with
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