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An artist's impression of the end of SS Kentucky, in flames after being hit by a 6 inch salvo from Italian Cruiser Montecuccoli. Later she was torpedoed and sunk finally by the destroyer Oriani. (Recreated from an aerial reconnaissance photo taken by the Regia Aeronautica Italiana and published by an Italian magazine on June 24, 1942.)

Description	Derivative work (watercolor) from an original 1940 photograph of the Italian destroyer Oriani
Source	Ministero Della Difesa-Aeronautica
Date	24 June 1942
Author	An unknown serviceman of the Regia Aeronautica
Permission (Reusing this image)	Italian Government created image prior to 1976

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This work was created by the government of Italy, published prior to 1976, and has no known US copyright registration associated with it. It is now in the public domain in Italy and the United States and possibly elsewhere.

This is because according to Law of 22 April 1941 n. 633, revised by the law of 22 May 2004, n. 128 article 11, copyright in works created and published under the name and at the expense of the State shall belong to the State. According to article 29, the duration of the rights belonging to the State shall be twenty years from first publication, whatever the form in which publication was effected.

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current	00:48, 3 July 2006	563×299 (114 KB)	DagosNavy (Talk \| contribs)	(An Artistic view of the end of SS Kentucky, in flames after being hit by a 6 inch salvo from Italian Cruiser Montecuccoli. Later she was torpedoed and sunk for good by the destroyer Oriani. )