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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-17054

Battle of Midway, June 1942


SBD "Dauntless" dive bombers from USS Hornet (CV-8) approaching the burning Japanese heavy cruiser Mikuma to make the third set of attacks on her, during the early afternoon of 6 June 1942.
Mikuma had been hit earlier by strikes from Hornet and USS Enterprise (CV-6), leaving her dead in the water and fatally damaged.
Photo was enlarged from a 16mm color motion picture film.
Note bombs hung beneath these planes.

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

Online Image: 152KB; 740 x 610 pixels

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5 March 1999