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Photo #: 80-G-32301

Battle of Midway, June 1942


USS Yorktown (CV-5) dead in the water after being hit by Japanese bombs on 4 June 1942.
The ship was hit shortly after noon. This view was taken about an hour later, with fires still burning in her uptakes but other immediate repairs well advanced. F4F-4 fighters that had been parked at the forward end of the flight deck during the attack have been respotted aft, in take off position. Two SBD-3 scout bombers can be seen through the open sides of her after hangar bay.

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

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23 March 1999