History Of San Diego In Pictures

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3 May 1945). Photographed at Guam, Army Nurse First Lieutenant Mary Jensen of San Diego, CA, looks up through the hole in the concrete and steel deck of the Navy hospital ship Comfort, punctured when a Japanese suicide pilot dive-crashed into the ship off Okinawa with his bomb-laden plane. Nurse Jensen, who had stepped out of the main surgery supply room less than one minute before it was completely demolished by the explosion, is standing three decks below where the crash occurred.