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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-21666

Battle of Midway, June 1942


USS Yorktown (CV-5) lists heavily after she was abandoned during the afternoon of 4 June 1942.
Note that two F4F-4 "Wildcat" fighters are still parked on her flight deck, aft of the island.

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

Online Image: 55KB; 740 x 555 pixels

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25 March 1999