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Summary
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English:
The Japanese light carrier
Shoho
under attack by U.S. Navy planes on 7 May 1942 during the Battle of the Coral Sea.
Note the Douglas TBD Devastator in lower center/left and two or three other U.S. Navy aircraft visible above the burning carrier. |
| Date | |
| Source | U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo 2001.283.005 ; also official U.S. Navy photograph 80-G-17047 , now in the collections of the U.S. National Archives. |
| Author | U.S. Navy (photographed from a USS Yorktown (CV-5) torpedo plane) |
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