MAKE A MEME View Large Image Sinking of the USS Yorktown (CV-5) 02.jpg The U S aircraft carrier USS Yorktown CV-5 damaged the Battle of Midway 4 June 1942 The Yorktown lists heavily to the port side with smoke billowing from her funnel after an attack by Japanese ...
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Keywords: Sinking of the USS Yorktown (CV-5) 02.jpg The U S aircraft carrier USS Yorktown CV-5 damaged the Battle of Midway 4 June 1942 The Yorktown lists heavily to the port side with smoke billowing from her funnel after an attack by Japanese aircraft during which she sustained three bomb hits and two torpedo hits On 6 June 1942 the Japanese submarine I-168 scored another two torpedo hits on the crippled aircraft carrier and she sank on 7 June Destroyers spent an entire day seeking out the Japanese submarine that sunk the Yorktown and her escort destroyer USS Hammann DD-412 but failed to sink I-168 The submarine was finally sunk by the USS Scamp SS-277 on 27 July 1943 U S Navy photo http //www history navy mil/our-collections/photography/wars-and-events/world-war-ii/midway/80-G-17062 html 80-G-17062; National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No 2003 001 223 http //collections naval aviation museum/emuwebdoncoms/pages/common/imagedisplay php irn 4629 reftable ecatalogue refirn 3096 1942-06-04 U S Navy PD-USGov-Military-Navy Battle of Midway US forces USS Yorktown CV-5
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