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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-32221

Battle of Midway, June 1942


USS Yorktown (CV-5) afire, stopped and surrounded by her escorts, after being hit by Japanese bombs shortly after noon on 4 June 1942.
This view was taken after flight deck repairs had progressed far enough to allow respotting aircraft. The planes, F4F-4 fighters that were parked forward during the attack, are in the process of being moved aft, to takeoff position.
Photographed from USS Pensacola (CA-24).

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

Online Image: 72KB; 740 x 555 pixels

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22 March 1999