The USS Canberra is seen receiving a torpedo hit in a dusk air attack. Sheets of flame shoot mast high from exploding boilers as the enemy plane that torpedoed the Canberra is on the left going down into the sea in flames.
Painting by Richard W. DeRosset Commissioned by John L. Whitmeyer
This
Web Site is Dedicated to the 23 men who lost their lives when
the
USS
CANBERRA CA 70 was struck by an Aerial Torpedo while operating
off
the coast of Formosa on Friday
October 13, 1944 and
to all
former
Officers and Enlisted
Crew members of
the
USS
CANBERRA CA 70
and
USS
CANBERRA CAG 2
who
have come together to form the
USS
CANBERRA REUNION ASSOCIATION
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