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Title
Battle
of
Midway
--
4-6
June
1942
Creator
Coale, Griffith Baily, 1890-
Publisher
[Washington
,
D.C.
? :
U.S
.
Government
Printing
Office
,
1973]
Physical Description
1 print : col. ; 51 x 41 cm.
Summary
Print
depicts
a
Japanese
aircraft
carrier
in
flames
during
the
Battle
of
Midway
.
Notes
Title
from
item.;"Great
value
to
our
country
will
come
from the
successful
conclusion
of the
operations
now
commencing.
"
Admiral
R.A
.
Spruance.;"Early
on
4
June
1942
, a
large
Japanese
attacking
force
en
route
to
Midway
was
unsuccessfully
attacked
by
all
available
aircraft
on the
island
,
followed
by
torpedo
planes
from
USS
HORNET
,
USS
ENTERPRISE
and
USS
YORKTOWN
.
Midway
Island
seemed
doomed
. Then the
carriers
'
dive
bombers
bored
in and
sank
the
Japanese
carriers
AKAGI
,
KAGA
, and
SORYU
.
HIRYU
, a
fourth
carrier
badly
damaged
on that
day
,
sank
on
5
June
.
Next
day
, the
Japanese
cruiser
MOGAMI
was
severly
damaged
; the
cruiser
MIKUMA
,
sunk
.
YORKTOWN
,
damaged
earlier
, was
victim
of a
submarine
on
7
June
. The
Battle
of
Midway
,
one
of the
most
decisive
in
naval
history
,
marked
the
turning
point
of the
War
in the
Pacific
which
eventually
led
to the
Japanese
surrender
on
board
USS
MISSOURI.
"
LC Subject Headings
Spruance, Raymond Ames, -- 1886-1969.
Midway, Battle of, 1942.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, Japanese.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Air operations, American.
Time Period
Late 20th Century (1961-2000)
World War II (1939-1945)
Call #
PRINT
00904
Item #
320938
OCLC #
812477263
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