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Summary
Description USS Yorktown (CV-5) is hit by a torpedo on 4 June 1942.jpg |
English:
USS Yorktown (CV-5)
is hit on the port side, amidships, by a Japanese Type 91 aerial torpedo during the mid-afternoon attack by planes from the carrier
Hiryu
, in the
Battle of Midway
, on
4 June
,
1942
.
Yorktown
is heeling to port and is seen at a different aspect than in other views taken by USS
Pensacola
(CA-24), indicating that this is the second of the two torpedo hits she received. Note very heavy anti-aircraft fire.
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Date | |
Source | Official U.S. Navy Photograph 80-G-414423 , U.S. National Archives. |
Author | USN, photographed from USS Pensacola (CA-24) |
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of the
U.S. federal government
, it is in the
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in the United States.
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