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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: 80-G-66129

USS Hornet (CV-8)


At Pearl Harbor, 26 May 1942, just after the Battle of Coral Sea, and just before the Battle of Midway.
Harbor tug Nokomis (YT-142) is underway alongside her.
Note paint chipped off Hornet's waterline area by wave action while at sea.

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

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17 March 1999