Title: USS Hornet, June, 1942 Description: U.S. Navy Dauntless dive bombers from the USS Hornet (CV-8) making a third run against the already crippled Japanese heavy cruiser Mikuma, from which white smoke trails right to left at center right, after being hit by several bombs during the Battle of Midway, a decisive U.S. victory that also claimed four mainline Japanese carriers and several other enemy ships and served as the turning point of World War II in the Pacific; this sea battle was profiled in the 1976 film Midway; Date: June 6, 1942 Category: World War II Keywords: air attacks, aircraft carriers, aviation, bomb hits, bombs, cruisers, dive bombers, explosions, fires, Second World War, smoke, U.S. Navy, U.S. planes, World War II, WWII Orientation: Portrait Dimensions: 1740 x 1772 (3.08 MPixels) (1.02) Print Size: 14.7 x 15.0 cm; 5.8 x 5.9 inches File Size: 8.84 MB (9,264,242 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000010133 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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