This official U.S. Navy caption card, dated October 26, 1944, corresponds to a photograph taken aboard the escort carrier USS Petrof Bay (CVE-80). Numbered sequentially after a card documenting USS Suwannee burning following a kamikaze strike, this image likely continues that same photographic record, though its subject line was left blank on the card itself. Marked 'Confidential' and restricted from publication, it exemplifies the careful documentation practices used aboard U.S. Navy vessels even amid the chaos of combat. Project: 218487