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Appendix A: Photos
Appendix B: Schematics
| 900-45 | Damage in action of 21 January 1945. Looking fwd. & stbd. at damaged director. |
| 901-45 | Damage in action of 21 January 1945. Looking fwd. & to port at damaged area around main battery director. |
| 902-45 | Damage in action of 21 January 1945. Torn welding under director. |
| 903-45 | Damage in action of 21 January 1945. Looking port, fwd. and up at director. |
| 904-45 | Damage in action of 21 January 1945. Looking port at damaged director, note shoring. |
| 905-45 | Damage in action of 21 January 1945. Looking fwd. & port at director, note shoring. |
| 906-45 | Damage in action of 21 January 1945. Looking fwd. at extended director shield. |
| 907-45 | Damage in action of 21 January 1945. Deck welding under director fdn. Note intact double head weld, foundation torn away. |
| 908-45 | Damage in action of 21 January 1945. Looking up (under) director. |
| 909-45 | Damage in action of 21 January 1945. Looking port & up at director. |
| 910-45 | Damage in action of 21 January 1945. Stbd. 36" searchlight, looking aft. |
| 911-45 | Damage in action of 21 January 1945. Port 36" searchlight, looking aft. |
| 912-45 | Damage in action of 21 January 1945. Stbd. strut of tripod, looking aft. |
| 913-45 | Damage in action of 21 January 1945. Port strut of tripod, & stack, looking aft. |
| 914-45 | Damage in action of 21 January 1945. Looking fwd. & stbd. - damaged piping around stack |
| 915-45 | Damage in action of 21 January 1945. Looking aft & stbd., comp't A-0213L fire damage. |
| 916-45 | Damage in action of 21 January 1945. Gal. walkway, looking to stbd. frames 77-79, stanchions buckled. |
| 917-45 | Damage in action of 21 January 1945. Looking fwd. at hole in bhd. #67 where bomb passed through before exploding on hangar deck. |
| 918-45 | Damage in action of 21 January 1945. Looking fwd. - hole in bhd. #67. Note the flight deck plating pushed down by force of crash. |
| 919-45 | Damage in action of 21 January 1945. Damaged wiring stbd. side Island - 05 level, looking up & port. |
| 920-45 | Damage in action of 21 January 1945. Damaged wiring & flag bags, looking down from 06 level, fwd. & port. |
| 921-45 | Damage in action of 21 January 1945. Port side - navigating bridge, looking stbd. & aft - damaged wiring. |
| 922-45 | Damage in action of 21 January 1945. Damaged switch box on port side of stack. |
| 923-45 | Damage in action of 21 January 1945. Looking to port from flight deck control room, frame 81. |
| 925-45 | Damage in action of 21 January 1945. Looking up & fwd. at under side of Director platform. |
| 926-45 | Port side shield - 05 level, flag bridge, looking aft. |
| 927-45 | Damaged speaker - .05 level looking aft. frame 98. |
| 928-45 | Looking stbd. damaged wiring & bhd. 05 level frame 98. |
| 929-45 | Flange on bent fr. #58 - looking to port in hangar. |
| 930-45 | Shrapnel holes in hangar deck frame 65 C.L. |
| 931-45 | Looking up & stbd. at under side of flight deck - frames 58-63 |
| 932-45 | Looking fwd. at bent #63 frame gallery deck. |
| 933-45 | Looking up & fwd. at bent #77. |
| 934-45 | Looking stbd. hangar deck - frame #77. |
| 935-45 | Looking stbd. and up at bent #63 & under side of flight deck. |
| 936-45 | Looking up at holes in flange frame #58. |
| 937-45 | Looking up at heaving and holes in flight deck frames 58-63. |
| 938-45 | Looking stbd. & aft. in R.S. Room A-112-M |
| 939-45 | Looking fwd. & port - damaged wiring - comp't A-210L. |
| 940-45 | Looking up and port - damage to hangar deck from shrapnel frames 58-63 C.L. (taken in officers' wardroom). |
| 941-45 | Looking aft at shoring of #1 AA Director showing lines securing director to mast. |
| 942-45 | Estimated paths of planes which struck the ship. |
| 943-45 | Looking stbd. showing damage to superstructure caused by Hit #2. |
| 945-45 | Effect of flooding on second deck & below, from hangar sprinkling Read original |
| 946-45 | Effect of explosion on C.L. stanchion and overhead of Warrant Officer's Messroom frame 58, 3rd Deck looking fwd. & stbd. |
| 947-45 | Looking to port frame 61, second deck, showing stanchion bent by effect of explosion in hangar deck above. |
| 948-45 | Gallery Deck, frame 70, looking aft from Admiral's galley. Part of damaged bulkhead has been cut away and hole overhead has been covered with steel plates. |
| 949-45 | Gallery Deck frame 67, looking to starboard and aft. |
| 950-45 | Contents of 40mm ammunition box (A-112M) which was penetrated by tail fuze. Arrow points to tail fuze. |
| 951-45 | 40mm ammunition boxes (A-112M) showing damage by bomb fragments. Arrow points to tail fuze inside box. Note that ammunition did not explode. |
| 952-45 | Fragment effect on 40mm Ready Ammunition Room and on main support girder at frame 5?? (Cut off on picture, but this compartment was between frames 54 to 58 according to the report) Hangar Deck. |
| 955-45 | Fighting fire from flight deck showing smoke from #1 elevator. |
| 958-45 | Flight deck looking aft showing penetration by Hit #1. |
| 959-45 | Flight deck immediately after Hit #1 showing smoke pouring through deck at point of entry and, upper right, smoke through #1 elevator opening. |
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