Coral_Sea_Neosho_Burning.jpg


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English: The United States Navy fleet oiler USS Neosho (AO-23) is left burning and slowly sinking after an attack by Imperial Japanese Navy dive bombers on 7 May 1942 during the Battle of the Coral Sea.
Date
Source Werneth, Ron, Beyond Pearl Harbor: The Untold Stories of Japan's Naval Airmen , Schiffer Military History, Atglen, PA, 2008, p. 66. Book states that the photo is from the Japanese Defense Agency, War History Section.
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  1. It was published before 1 January 1957.
  2. It was photographed before 1 January 1947.
It is also in the public domain in the United States because its copyright in Japan expired by 1970 and was not restored by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act .
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