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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-13065

USS Yorktown (CV-5)


In Dry Dock # 1 at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, 29 May 1942, receiving urgent repairs for damage received in the Battle of Coral Sea. She left Pearl Harbor the next day to participate in the Battle of Midway.
USS West Virginia (BB-48), sunk in the 7 December 1941 Japanese air attack, is being salvaged in the left distance.

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

Online Image: 88KB; 740 x 620 pixels

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17 March 1999