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Destroyer USS Hammann sinking, 6 Jun 1942, photo 1 of 2, seen from USS Yorktown	Destroyer USS Hammann sinking, 6 Jun 1942, photo 2 of 2, seen from USS Yorktown	Map of the Pacific prepared by the United States Military Academy showing the movements of the Japanese and United States battle forces for the Battle of Midway, 6 Jun 1942.	Mikuma burning, 6 Jun 1942, taken by the gunner of a US plane, DD Asashio or Arashio is nearby

Mikuma burning, with midships structure shattered and torpedo dangling from tube, 6 Jun 1942	SBDs from Hornet over the burning Mikuma, early afternoon, 6 Jun 1942	Survivors of USS Hammann arriving at Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii after Battle of Midway, 6 Jun 1942	Track of the Battle of Midway, 3 to 6 Jun 1942, prepared for the United States Navy Office of Naval Intelligence Combat Narrative report.

Troops of the Japanese Special Naval Landing Force raising the Japanese naval ensign on Kiska Island, Aleutian Islands, 6 Jun 1942	US Navy Lieutenant Commanders Joe Taylor (left) and William O. Burch, Jr. (right) standing beside a Torpedo Squadron 5 TBD-1 Devastator aircraft, Naval Air Station, Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, US Territory of Hawaii, 6 Jun 1942	Japanese naval infantry on Attu, US Territory of Alaska, 7 Jun 1942	VT-8 survivor Ensign George Gay at Pearl Harbor Naval Hospital, 7 Jun 1942

B5N2 torpedo bomber wreckage sitting atop Indispensable Reef as it was found on 9 Jun 1942; she was lost during the Battle of Coral Sea	Lidice, Czechoslovakia 10 Jun 1942. Courtyard of the wrecked Horák family farm before the structures were totally destroyed.	Lidice, Czechoslovakia 10 Jun 1942. SS firing squad conducting execution of all of the village’s men, ten at a time, at the Horák family farm.	Lidice, Czechoslovakia 10 Jun 1942. SS officer overseeing the destruction of the village. The wreck of St. Martin’s church built in 1732 is still standing in the village center.

Lidice, Czechoslovakia 10 Jun 1942. SS officer standing over the bodies of all 173 of the village’s men in the garden at the Horák family farm. The mattresses were put up against the stone wall to prevent ricochets.	Lidice, Czechoslovakia 10 Jun 1942. SS officer standing over the bodies of all 173 of the village’s men in the garden at the Horák family farm. The mattresses were put up against the stone wall to prevent ricochets.	Lidice, Czechoslovakia 10 Jun 1942. SS officers overseeing the destruction of the village.	Lidice, Czechoslovakia 10 Jun 1942. St. Martin’s church built in 1732 with one of the village’s barns in the foreground burned out but before explosives reduced them to rubble.