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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-79974-1

Battle of Midway, June 1942


Japanese prisoners of war on board USS Ballard (AVD-10) after being rescued from a lifeboat two weeks after the Battle of Midway. They were members of the aircraft carrier Hiryu's engineering force, left behind when she was abandoned on 5 June 1942, and had escaped in one of her boats just as she sank.

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

Online Image: 64KB; 740 x 510 pixels

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12 March 1999