USS FISKE DE 143

Broken in two and sinking in the Atlantic Ocean on 2 August 1944,
after she was torpedoed by the German submarine U-804.
Note men abandoning ship by walking down the side of her capsizing bow section.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives - Photo #: 80-G-270257
 

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