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Photo #: 80-G-176150 Mitsubishi Type 00 Shipboard Fighters (A6M2 Model 21. Allied codename: "Zeke") Ready for takeoff from a Japanese aircraft carrier, 1942. This view was probably taken on board Shokaku as she prepared to launch aircraft in the morning of 26 October 1942, during the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands. Japanese writing in lower right states that the image was reproduced by authorization of the Navy Ministry.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

www.history.navy.mil: Photo #80-G-176150 BuAer176150

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This photographic image was published before 31st December 1956 or photographed before 1946 and not published for 10 years thereafter under jurisdiction of the Government of Japan. Thus this photographic image is considered to be public domain according to article 23 of old copyright law of Japan and article 2 of supplemental provision of copyright law of Japan. This applies world wide.

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