File:Shoho under attack.jpg

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English: The Japanese light carrier Shoho under attack by U.S. Navy planes on 7 May 1942 during the Battle of the Coral Sea.
Note the Douglas TBD Devastator in lower center/left and two or three other U.S. Navy aircraft visible above the burning carrier.
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Source U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo 2001.283.005; also official U.S. Navy photograph 80-G-17047, now in the collections of the U.S. National Archives.
Author U.S. Navy (photographed from a USS Yorktown (CV-5) torpedo plane)

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