Chronology of World War II

Friday, November 10


The Mount Hood Explosion


The <i>Mount Hood</i> Explosion
The USS Mount Hood (AE-11), smoke cloud expanding, just after she exploded in Seeadler Harbor, Manus, Admiralty Islands, November 10, 1944. Photographed by a photographer of the 57th Construction Battalion, who had set up his camera to take pictures of the Battalion’s camp