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File:USS Yorktown hit-740px.jpg

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English: USS Yorktown (CV-5) is hit on the port side, amidships, by a Japanese Type 91 aerial torpedo during the mid-afternoon attack by planes from the carrier Hiryu, in the Battle of Midway, on 4 June, 1942. Yorktown is heeling to port and is seen at a different aspect than in other views taken by USS Pensacola (CA-24), indicating that this is the second of the two torpedo hits she received. Note very heavy anti-aircraft fire.
Date 4 June 1942
Source Official U.S. Navy Photograph 80-G-414423, U.S. National Archives.
Author USN, photographed from USS Pensacola (CA-24)

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