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Online Library of Selected Images -- Picture Data

Photo #: NH 73064

Battle of Midway, June 1942


Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryu burning, shortly after sunrise on 5 June 1942, a few hours before she sank. Photographed by a plane from the carrier Hosho.
Note collapsed flight deck at right. Part of the forward elevator is standing upright just in front of the island, where it had been thrown by an explosion in the hangar.

Donation of Kazutoshi Hando, 1970.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

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5 March 1999