    
Title: USS Yorktown, June, 1942 Description: Smoke rises from the island structure of the carrier USS Yorktown (CV-5) after having been hit by three bombs from Japanese planes in the Battle of Midway; the Yorktown had been damaged on May 8, 1942 in the Battle of the Coral Sea, where a bomb from a Japanese plane tore through its flight deck and caused sixty-six casualties; it had been miraculously repaired at Pearl Harbor in time for it to join Task Force 17 on May 30, 1942 to participate in the Battle of Midway, where planes from the Yorktown, the USS Enterprise (CV-6) and the USS Hornet (CV-8) sank four Japanese carriers in a decisive carrier battle that turned the tide of the war in the Pacific, which was accurately portrayed in the 1976 film Midway; Date: June 4, 1942 Category: World War II Keywords: aircraft carriers, airplanes, aviation, carriers, Battle of Midway, June 4-7, 1942, bombs, Second World War, smoke, U.S. Navy, U.S. warships, World War II, WWII Orientation: Panorama Dimensions: 1980 x 855 (1.69 MPixels) (2.32) Print Size: 16.8 x 7.2 cm; 6.6 x 2.9 inches File Size: 4.85 MB (5,085,766 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000010635 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection |
