USS Ellet (DD-398) passes a crashed Mitsubishi G4M floating off Tulagi on 8 August 1942 ( )
1942
Crewmen of the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Ellet (DD-398) look at the floating wreckage of a Japanese Navy Mitsubishi G4M Type 1 land attack plane (Allied code name "Betty"), which crashed during the aerial torpedo attack on the Allied invasion force off Tulagi Island on 8 August 1942.
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