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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-17030

Battle of Coral Sea, May 1942


Japanese aircraft carrier Shokaku attacked by USS Yorktown (CV-5) planes, during the morning of 8 May 1942. Flames from a bomb hit on her forecastle are visible, as are smoke and splashes from dive bombers' near misses off her starboard side.
Photographed from a Torpedo Squadron Five TBD-1. What appear to be erratic torpedo tracks are visible in the lower left.

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

Online Image: 55KB; 740 x 595 pixels

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13 April 1999