Keywords: Japanese cruiser Aoba aerial photo 28 July 1945.jpg Japanese cruiser Aoba and nearby buildings and terrain at Nabe near the Kure Naval District Kure Navy Yard Japan Taken from a San Jacinto CVL-30 plane during air attacks on 28 July 1945 Smoke is coming from under Aoba ' s bridge to starboard where she had been hit by a carrier plane's bomb Large hole in her stern is from direct hits made by USAAF Consolidated B-24 Liberator B-24 bombers Photo http //www history navy mil/photos/images/h97000/h97734c htm NH 97734<br/> The original photograph came from Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison's World War II history project working files U S Naval Historical Center Photograph 1945-07-28 PD-USGov-Military-Navy Bombing of Kure Aoba ship 1927 Kegoya Kure Aerial photographs of Hiroshima prefecture |