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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-17422

Battle of Coral Sea, May 1942


Bombs burst near the Japanese aircraft carrier Shokaku as she was attacked by USS Yorktown (CV-5) planes in the morning of 8 May 1942.
Note anti-aircraft shell burst in left center, with fragments splashing below and further left.

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

Online Image: 49KB; 740 x 600 pixels

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13 April 1999