File:USS Mount Hood (AE-11) explodes at Seeadler Harbor on 10 November 1944.jpg

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English: The explosion of the U.S. Navy ammunition ship USS Mount Hood (AE-11) in Seeadler Harbor, Manus, Admiralty Islands on 10 November 1944. The smoke trails are left by fragments ejected by the explosion. The cause of the explosion could not be determined.
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Source Official U.S. Navy photo NH 65605 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command
Author U.S. Navy, photographed by a photographer of the 57th Construction Battalion, who had set up his camera to take pictures of the Battalion's camp.

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