American Cargo Ship Sicily

From the deck of a Coast Guard manned transport, a Coast Guard photographer captured these shots of an American cargo ship hit by German dive bombers in an air raid on a convoy in the invasion of Sicily. Fire, started by bombs dropped amidships spread rapidly to the ship's munitions supplies, which exploded to form dangerous though picturesque patterns across the Mediterranean. Sicilian Campaign (Operation Husky) 1943

2994 x 3580 px (25 x 30cm) @ 300 DPI