USS Yorktown (CV-5) dead in the water after being hit by Japanese bombs on 4 June 1942.The ship was hit shortly after noon. This view was taken about an hour later, with fires still burning in her uptakes but other immediate repairs well advanced. F4F-4 fighters that had been parked at the forward end of the flight deck during the attack have been respotted aft, in take off position.(rudeerude)

USS Yorktown dead in the water

Sailors use holystones to grind away the dark blue-gray paint that covered the teak wood for camouflage. This photo was taken on the 01 veranda deck as USS Missouri steamed toward Hawaii in September 1945.

Sailors aboard USS Missouri 

A Douglas SBD-3 "Dauntless" scout bomber warming up on USS Yorktown, in the late morning of 4 June 1942.
It is Number 17 of "Scouting" Squadron Five (the temporarily redesignated Bombing Squadron Five), piloted by Ensign Leif Larsen, but was apparently not one of ten "VS"-5 planes launched on a scouting mission shortly before noon on 4 June. Another of the squadron's SBDs succeeded in locating Hiryu, the only Japanese aircraft carrier of the Midway striking force that was still operational