USS Liscome Bay CVE-56

Files

Download

Download Full Text (368 KB)

Creator

Preview

image preview

Identifier

30002668

Description

Aerial view of USS Liscome Bay CVE-56, ferrying aircraft to San Diego, September 20, 1943, with a load of SBD Dauntlesses, TBF Avengers and F4F Wildcats. Doris "Dorie" Miller was killed on November 24, 1943 aboard USS Liscome Bay (CVE 56) when the ship was hit by a torpedo and sank off Butaritari Atoll in the Gilbert Islands.

Archival Date

1943-09-20

Collection Name

Emerson Emory Papers

Collection Number

AR466-1-20

Original Format

Prints, Black & White

File Format

JPG

Rights

Rights held by The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Special Collections. Any use of content downloaded or printed from this page is limited to non-commercial personal or educational use, including fair use as directed by U.S. copyright laws. For more information or for reproduction requests, please contact UTA Special Collections by emailing spcoref@uta.edu.

USS Liscome Bay CVE-56

Share

 
COinS