A 7,000 ton Japanese merchant vessel after a direct hit by India Air Task forces near Rangoon, India. A bomb is dropping in the lower right part of the picture and small boats are trying to carry the crew members away from the sinking vessel. The waters are covered with oil slick. Circa 1943

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