Photo #: NH 95573
USS Yorktown (CV-5)
View of damage on the third and fourth decks, amidships, caused
by a 250 kilogram bomb hit received during the Battle of Coral
Sea, 8 May 1942.
This view looks forward and to starboard from the ship's centerline
at frame 110. The photographer is in compartment C-301-L , shooting
down through the third deck into compartment C-402-A. The large
hole in the deck was made by the bomb's explosion. Many men were
killed or badly injured in C-301-L, a crew's messing space that
was the assembly area for the ship's engineering repair party.
Copied from USS Yorktown war damage report of 20 May 1942.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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