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Image: G13065 USS Yorktown Pearl Harbor May 1942

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Description: The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-5) in Dry Dock No.1 at the Pearl Harbor Navy Yard, 29 May 1942, receiving urgent repairs for damage received in the Battle of Coral Sea. She left Pearl Harbor the next day to participate in the Battle of Midway. USS West Virginia (BB-48), sunk in the 7 December 1941 Japanese air attack, is being salvaged in the left distance.
Title: G13065 USS Yorktown Pearl Harbor May 1942
Credit: Official U.S. Navy Photograph 80-G-13065, now in the collections of the U.S. National Archives.
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