Air Attack On T.F. 58: Jap Planes Shot Down; USS Washington (BB-56) Fires AA Guns, 06/13/1944 (full)

Freely downloadable at the Internet Archive, where I first uploaded it. Naval Photographic Center film #4856. National Archives description: "1) GV-MS USS WASHINGTON firing AA batteries--excellent.2) MS Japanese planes pass CV, many tracers.3) GV Flaming Japanese plane crashes into water.4) MS Flaming Japanese plane flies thru air.(good).5) MS WASHINGTON firing AA guns, tracers, night action, (good).6) LS Japanese plane passes in cloud of tracers, dives into sea.7) LS Japanese planes crash into sea off bow of CV. flak bursts in air. 2Vs.8) LS Japanese plane in flames amidst AA bursts, CVL, DD FG.9) LS-Pan BB, CV & CVL, flak bursts in air." National Archives Identifier: 77245

[@cpresc4041]

My Dad was on the Washington from sea trials through the end of the war. He was 19 years old and worked the 40mm guns

[@johnsprague4523]

My father was on the Washington. Thanks for posting.