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Old 01-03-13, 11:04 PM   #10
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This is a shot of CV5 USS Yorktown. This is during the battle of Midway. The Yorktown, besides being hit by Bombs was struck by two type 91 aerial torpedo during the mid-afternoon attack by planes from the carrier Hiryu, 4 June 1942.



From this ariel shot you can clearly see the torpedos from the planes had wake. There are four fish shown but only two struck the Yorktown.

Days later she was sunk along with a tending destroyer, USS Hammonn (DD-412), by the Japanese submarine I-168 when it fired four torpedos. One missed, another hit the Hammonn amidship breaking her in half, two hit the Yorktown. Both ships sank.

http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/e...ay/mid-10d.htm
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