Photo #: 80-G-414422 Battle of Midway, June 1942 Japanese heavy cruiser Mikuma, photographed from a USS Enterprise (CV-6) SBD aircraft during the afternoon of 6 June 1942, after she had been bombed by planes from Enterprise and USS Hornet (CV-8). Note her shattered midships structure, torpedo dangling from the after port side tubes and wreckage atop her number four eight-inch gun turret. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 96KB; 740 x 590 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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Image posted 5 March 1999
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