Two U.S. Navy escort carriers steam together in the Philippine Sea, one trailing a massive column of black smoke after being struck by a Japanese kamikaze aircraft on October 26, 1944. Photographed from the flight deck of USS Petrof Bay, this image captures the scale and violence of the kamikaze attacks that began just a day after the Battle off Samar, as Japan turned to suicide air attacks against the U.S. Navy's escort carrier task units supporting the Leyte invasion. Project: 218487