DescriptionDamaged 127mm gun on USS Enterprise (CV-6), circa in August 1942.jpg
English: view of the 5"/38 Mark 12 dual-purpose gun number No.5 of III. battery on the aft-starboard side of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CV-6), circa in late August 1942. This battery was heavily damaged by the 2nd bomb-hit during the Battle of the Eastern Solomons on 24 August 1942. 38 crewmembers died including Photographer's Mate Robert F. Read. 10 of them were never identified.
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== Summary == {{Information| |Description= Damaged 5-inch gun and gallery on ''Enterprise'', photographed soon after the battle of August 24, 1942. |Source= US Government (http://www.cv6.org/noumea/default.asp?uri=detail/barr-img-291&ref=August+1942) Alth
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