Photo #: NH 106003
Battle of Midway, June 1942
USS Yorktown (CV-5) sinking, just after dawn on 7 June
1942, as seen from an accompanying destroyer.
The ship has capsized to port, exposing the turn of her starboard
bilge.
This view looks toward the ship's bottom from off her bow, with
Yorktown's forefoot in the right foreground and her starboard
forward five-inch gun gallery beyond. The large hole made by
one or two submarine torpedoes, severing the ship's forward bilge
keel, is toward the left.
USS Monaghan (DD-354) is in the left center distance.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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