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Description Two Type 97 shipboard attack aircraft from the Japanese aircraft carrier Hiryu fly past the U.S. Navy carrier USS Yorktown (CV-5), after dropping their torpedoes during the mid-afternoon attack, 4 June 1942. Note the heavy anti-aircraft fire. The destroyer at left, just beyond Yorktown´s bow, is probably USS Morris (DD-417).
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Source Official U.S. Navy photograph 80-G-32241, now in the collections of the U.S. National Archives.
Author USN, photographed from USS Pensacola (CA-24).

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