Chronology of World War II
Tuesday, October 24
Damage to the
Princeton
View from the foredeck on
Birmingham
(CL-62) as she stood alongside
Princeton
to help fight her fires, during the afternoon of October 24. The carrier had been hit by a Japanese air attack while operating off the Philippines. Note fire hoses on
Birmingham’s
deck and details of the underside of her Number Two 6-in/47 gun turret.