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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-32300

Battle of Midway, June 1942


USS Yorktown (CV-5) after being hit by Japanese bombs shortly after noon on 4 June 1942.
This view was taken shortly after the ship lost power and stopped, while F4F-4 fighters were still spotted forward, their location during the attack. Fires are burning in Yorktown's uptakes.

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

Online Image: 85KB; 740 x 605 pixels

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23 March 1999