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![Historic photos shows smoke coming from ship and heavy antiaircraft fire. Historic photos shows smoke coming from ship and heavy antiaircraft fire.](/sites/default/files/styles/colorbox/public/galleries/80-G-414423.jpg?itok=f_qSWeGg)
USS Yorktown is hit on the port side, amidships, by a Japanese Type 91 aerial torpedo during the mid-afternoon attack by planes from the carrier Hiryu on June 4, 1942. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.