The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-5) burns on June 4, 1942 after attacks from Japanese dive bombers during the Battle of Midway. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)

USS Yorktown on Fire

March 30, 2016

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The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-5) burns on June 4, 1942 after attacks from Japanese dive bombers during the Battle of Midway. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)

The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-5) burns on June 4, 1942 after attacks from Japanese dive bombers during the Battle of Midway. (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.) — (Official U.S. Navy Photograph.)

The Chance Vought XF4U-1 Corsair prototype photographed during testing at the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia in 1941. (NASA Photograph.)

XF4U-1 Corsair Prototype

Officers watch the Consolidated B-24 Liberator Bolivar Jr. as the aircraft taxis on Saipan, Mariana Islands in May 1945. (U.S. Air Force Photograph.)

B-24 “Bolivar Jr.”

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