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Burning oil tank, Sand Island, Midway Atoll, 4 Jun 1942	Burning seaplane hangar, Sand Island, Midway Atoll, 4 Jun 1942	Burning ship and oil storage at Dutch Harbor, US Territory of Alaska, 4 Jun 1942, photo 1 of 2	Burning ship and oil storage at Dutch Harbor, US Territory of Alaska, 4 Jun 1942, photo 2 of 2

Catwalk on the port side of Yorktown bent as a result of torpedo damage, 4 Jun 1942	Corpsmen treating casualties aboard Yorktown, 4 Jun 1942	Crew of USS Yorktown fighting a fire during the Battle of Midway, 4 Jun 1942	Crew of Yorktown prepared to abandon ship, 4 Jun 1942

Crew of Yorktown struggled to maintain balance as the ship listed, 4 Jun 1942	Cruiser Vincennes and a destroyer guarded Yorktown as the carrier was being abandoned, 4 Jun 1942	D3A1 carrier dive bomber in flight over Sand Island, Midway Atoll, 4 Jun 1942	Destroyer Balch guarded Yorktown as the carrier was being abandoned, 4 Jun 1942, photo 1 of 2

Destroyer Balch guarded Yorktown as the carrier was being abandoned, 4 Jun 1942, photo 2 of 2	Destroyer Benham with 720 survivors of Yorktown on board, at 1900 on 4 Jun 1942; Yorktown in the distance	Destroyers Benham, Russell, Balch, and Anderson stood by as Yorktown was abandoned, afternoon of 4 Jun 1942, photo 1 of 2	Destroyers Benham, Russell, Balch, and Anderson stood by as Yorktown was abandoned, afternoon of 4 Jun 1942, photo 2 of 2

Diorama by Norman Bel Geddes of Kaga, Akagi, and Soryu under attack at Midway	Eastern Island of Midway Atoll under attack, 4 Jun 1942	Enterprise and Northampton underway during Battle of Midway, 4 Jun 1942. Photo taken from USS Pensacola.	Enterprise VB-6 SBD, with pilot Ensign George Goldsmith and Radioman 1st Class James Patterson, Jr. still onboard, on the flight deck of Yorktown due to fuel exhaustion, 4 Jun 1942, photo 1 of 2