USS Lunga Point (CVE-94) burns off Iwo Jima, 21 February 1945.jpg
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USS Lunga Point (CVE 94) burns off Iwo Jima, 21 February 1945, Fires range on the flight deck of the U.S. Navy escort carrier USS ''Lunga Point'' (CVE-94) off Iwo Jima, on 21 February 1945. The ship was attacked by four aircraft. All were shot down, but the last slithered over the flight deck and crashed with the right wing into the after part of the island, shearing off the wing before falling into the sea. The resulting fires from burning gasoline were quickly extinguished., Lunga Point burning from the third kamikaze, on 21 February 1945, which sparked a brief gasoline fire. The damage from the kamikaze attacks proved to be minimal.
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ルンガポイントは1945年2月21日に硫黄島沖で燃え尽きる。船は4機の航空機の攻撃を受けた。全員が撃墜されたが、最後のスリッターは飛行甲板を乗り越え、右翼とともに島の一部に墜落し、翼から離れて海に落下した。1945年2月21日、第3回神風で発生したルンガ岬の火災により、ガソリンが短時間で燃え尽きた。神風攻撃による被害は最小限に抑えられた。
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ルンガポイント
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slither iwo jima iwo burn off methodological escort carrier point after burn down