Image:Sinking of japanese cruiser Mikuma 6 june 1942.jpg

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Photo # 80-G-414422

Burning Japanese cruiser Mikuma

6 June 1942

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Caption: Japanese heavy cruiser Mikuma, photographed from a USS Enterprise (CV-6) SBD aircraft during the Battle of Midway, after she had been bombed by planes from Enterprise and USS Hornet (CV-8). Note her shattered midships structure, torpedo dangling from the after port side tubes and wreckage atop her number four eight-inch gun turret.

Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Source: http://www.history.navy.mil/photos/images/g410000/g414422t.jpg

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current09:30, 18 September 2006740×568 (87 KB)Raul654 (Removed in-pic caption)
09:00, 23 May 2006740×590 (96 KB)Ulflarsen (Caption: Japanese heavy cruiser Mikuma, photographed from a USS Enterprise (CV-6) SBD aircraft during the Battle of Midway, after she had been bombed by planes from Enterprise and USS Hornet (CV-8). Note her shattered midships structure, torpedo dangling )
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