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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-312064

Battle of Midway, June 1942


Survivors of USS Hammann (DD-412) are brought ashore at Pearl Harbor from USS Benham (DD-397), a few days after their ship was sunk on 6 June 1942.
Note Navy ambulance in left foreground, many onlookers, depth charge racks on Benham's stern and open sights on her after 5"/38 gun mount.

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

Online Image: 131KB; 740 x 545 pixels

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Originally posted 29 March 1999
Coding updated 14 October 2001