Images of War


Battle of Midway: Scene on board the USS Yorktown, (CV-5), shortly after she was hit by three bombs on 4 June 1942. Dense smoke is from fires in her uptakes, caused by a bomb that punctured them and knocked out her boilers. Taken by Photographer 2rd Class William G. Roy from the starboard side of the flight deck. Courtesy of the U.S. National Archives