The Navy destroyer USS Abner Read (DD-526) afire and sinking in Leyte Gulf on 1 November 1944 after being hit by a Aichi D3A kamikaze. A second Japanese suicide plane (circled) is attempting to crash on USS Claxton (DD-571). However, this one was shot down short of its target.

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