This official U.S. Navy caption card, dated October 26, 1944, documents a photograph taken aboard USS Petrof Bay (CVE-80) of the escort carrier USS Suwannee burning after being struck by a Japanese kamikaze aircraft that crash-dived onto her flight deck at 1228 hours. The event occurred one day after the Battle off Samar, part of the opening wave of coordinated kamikaze attacks that would come to define the final year of the Pacific War. Cards such as this, marked 'Confidential' and restricted from publication, preserved the precise time, date, and circumstances of wartime photographs for the official historical record. Project: 218487