Supply Ship Elbe on Fire
Here we see the 9,179 ton German blockade runner Elbe on fire after being hit by aircraft from the carrier HMS Eagle on 6 June 1941. The Elbe sank as a result of the damage, 900 miles to the north-west of the Cape Verde Islands (in the mid Atlantic).
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Rickard, J (22 August 2026), Supply Ship Elbe on Fire , https://www.historyofwar.org/Pictures/pictures_supply_ship_elbe_burning.html
