USS Suwannee (CVE-27) trails heavy smoke after being struck by a kamikaze aircraft on the morning of October 25, 1944, during the Battle off Samar in Leyte Gulf. Photographed at 0803 from the escort carrier USS Petrof Bay (CVE-80), this image documents one of the first coordinated kamikaze attacks of the Pacific War, which struck several escort carriers of the Taffy task units that day. Project: 218483