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HMS ''Exeter'' sinking during the Battle of the Java Sea on 28 February 1942. Photo taken from a Japanese aircraft. http://www.warship.get.net.pl/_History/Galleries/_Sinking_gallery_02.html ==Licensing== {{PD-Japan-oldphoto}}
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