Battle of Midway and the Aleutian Islands Photographs

115 items in this album on 6 pages.


Destroyer USS Hammann sinking, 6 Jun 1942, photo 2 of 2, seen from USS Yorktown	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	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	Surviviors of Hiryu aboard USS Ballard, Jun 1942	Survivors of Hiryu disembarking USS Ballard at Midway, 20 Jun 1942. Ballard rescued 35 Japanese sailors the previous day after two weeks in an open boat. One died while en route Midway and was buried at sea.	Damaged and partially disassembled F4F-3 Wildcat on Sand Island, Midway, circa 24-25 Jun 1942

Japanese Special Naval Landing Force troops at Attu or Kiska, Aleutian Islands, US Territory of Alaska, circa mid-1942	Aerial photograph of North Head Kiska Harbor, Kiska Island, Alaska during a bombing mission, 17 Jul 1942. Note the notations made by the photo analysts.	Commander Arnold True, commanding officer of USS Hammann during Battle of Midway, receiving Navy Cross award from William Halsey, Oct 1942