ForumUpload Photos
← PreviousNext →
USS Hammann (DD-412) sinking

US Navy

USS Hammann (DD-412) sinking

National Archives

USS Hammann (DD-412) sinking with stern high, after being torpedoed by Japanese submarine I-168 in the afternoon of 6 June 1942.Photographed from the starboard forecastle deck of USS Yorktown (CV-5) by Photographer 2nd Class William G. Roy. Angular structure in right foreground is the front of Yorktown's forward starboard 5-inch gun gallery. Note knotted lines hanging down from the carrier's flight deck, remaining from her initial abandonment on 4 June.

2475 Views

4/9/2010

FacebookTwitter