File:PBY sights Japanese minesweepers en route to Midway on 3 June 1942.jpg

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Description Diorama depicting the sighting of the Japanese minesweepers Tama Maru No. 3 and Tama Maru No. 5 by a Midway-based Consolidated PBY Catalina flown by Ensign James P.O. Lyle, at 0904 hrs on 3 June 1942. These ships had left Wake on 31 May, and were the first units of the Japanese invasion force to be spotted enroute to Midway.
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Source Official U.S. Navy photo 80-G-701843 from the U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command
Author Norman Bel Geddes, U.S. Navy

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