
Caption | Survivors of Hiryu at Midway, Jun 1942 ww2dbase | ||||||||
Source | ww2dbaseUnited States National Archives | ||||||||
Identification Code | 80-G-79984-28 | ||||||||
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Photos on Same Day | 10 Jun 1942 | ||||||||
Added By | C. Peter Chen | ||||||||
Added Date | 7 Sep 2006 | ||||||||
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Licensing | Public Domain. According to the US National Archives, as of 21 Jul 2010: |
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Famous WW2 Quote
"We no longer demand anything, we want war."Joachim von Ribbentrop, German Foreign Minister, Aug 1939
15 Nov 2013 10:02:39 AM
ABANDONED AT MIDWAY: FOR THEM THE WAR IS OVER
Survivors of the carrier Hiryu were picked up by both Japanese and American ships. One group of the ships company, spent two weeks in a life boat until rescued by the US Navy.
LUCKY TO ESCAPE:
On June 9th the US Submarine USS Trout picked up two survivors from the Japanese Cruiser Mikuma they were transported to Pearl Harbor as POWs.
LIFEBOAT: LIVED TO TELL THE TALE
The USS Ballard picked up 35 survivors from the
Hiryu's engineering section, thay were left behind
when the carrier was abandoned, later took to a lifeboat before the ship sank on June 5th, 1942
Later sent to Pearl Harbor as POWs.
How many other sailors were never rescued and listed as missing in action, only to be left to die in the vast Pacific Ocean.