Photo #: NH 95575
Battle of Midway, June 1942
USS Yorktown (CV-5) sinking, just after dawn on 7 June
1942, as seen from an accompanying destroyer.
The ship has capsized to port, exposing the turn of her starboard
bilge, with a large torpedo hole amidships severing the forward
bilge keel. Yorktown's forefoot is at the extreme right.
Her starboard forward 5-inch gun gallery can be seen further
up her hull, with two 5"/38 gun barrels sticking out over
its edge. The two larger thin objects sticking up, just aft of
the 5-inch guns, are aircraft parking outriggers. When the ship's
wreck was examined in May 1998, both guns were still in position,
but the outriggers were gone.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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