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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-2292

Japanese attack on Midway Island, 7 December 1941


Shell damage to the laundry building (foreground), following the raid carried out by Japanese destroyers Ushio and Sazanami on 7 December 1941.
View looks about southwest, along Sand Island's southern side. This building was hit again, by Japanese air attack on 4 June 1942, during the Battle of Midway. See Photo # 80-G-17057 for a photograph taken at that time.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Online Image: 78KB; 740 x 575 pixels

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10 January 2001