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NH 95573 Yorktown

Photo #: NH 95573 USS Yorktown (CV-5)
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Description: View of damage on the third and fourth decks, amidships, caused by a 250 kilogram bomb hit received during the Battle of Coral Sea, 8 May 1942. This view looks forward and to starboard from the ship's centerline at frame 110. The photographer is in compartment C-301-L , shooting down through the third deck into compartment C-402-A. The large hole in the deck was made by the bomb's explosion. Many men were killed or badly injured in C-301-L, a crew's messing space that was the assembly area for the ship's engineering repair party. Copied from USS Yorktown war damage report of 20 May 1942. U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph.
Catalog #: NH 95573
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