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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-11664

USS Yorktown (CV-5)


Two Douglas SBD-3 "Dauntless" scout bombers of Scouting Squadron Five (VS-5) fly past the ship, during operations in the Coral Sea, circa April 1942.
Planes parked on the flight deck, in the foreground, are Grumman F4F-3 "Wildcat" fighters of Fighting Squadron 42 (VF-42).

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

Online Image: 63KB; 740 x 605 pixels

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7 April 1999