Photo showing Japanese ships hit and others fleeing at Rabaul Harbor when carrier based American planes swooped down with torpedos and bombs. United States Navy photographer Paul T. Barnett, Photographers Mate, First Class, of Corpus Christi, Texas, lost his life taking this photo. The torpedo and dive bomber planes headed home after the attack, but Barnett’s photographic plane, escorted by two fighters, made repeated runs over the harbor for intelligence gathering photos. Eight Japanese Zero planes pounced on it sumutaneously, and a bullet killed Barnett who fell dead over his camera. Februar

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Photo showing Japanese ships hit and others fleeing at Rabaul Harbor when carrier based American planes swooped down with torpedos and bombs. United States Navy photographer Paul T. Barnett, Photographers Mate, First Class, of Corpus Christi, Texas, lost his life taking this photo. The torpedo and dive bomber planes headed home after the attack, but Barnett’s photographic plane, escorted by two fighters, made repeated runs over the harbor for intelligence gathering photos. Eight Japanese Zero planes pounced on it sumutaneously, and a bullet killed Barnett who fell dead over his camera. February 14, 1944

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Size: 5355px × 3975px
Location: RaRabaul on New Britain in the Bismarck Archipelago
Photo credit: © Archive Image / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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