Chronology of World War II
Sunday, June 7
US Carrier
Yorktown
(CV-5) Sinking
USS
Yorktown
(CV-5) sinking, just after dawn on June 7, 1942, as seen from an accompanying destroyer. The ship has capsized to port, exposing the turn of her starboard bilge. This view looks toward the ship's bottom from off her bow, with
Yorktown's
forefoot in the right foreground and her starboard forward five-inch gun gallery beyond. The large hole made by one or two submarine torpedoes, severing the ship's forward bilge keel, is toward the left. USS
Monaghan
(DD-354) is in the left center distance.