
Caption | Surviviors of Hiryu aboard USS Ballard, Jun 1942 ww2dbase | ||||||||
Source | ww2dbaseUnited States National Archives | ||||||||
Identification Code | 80-G-79974-1 | ||||||||
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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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LUCKY TO BE ALIVE:
Group of 35 sailors from the Hiryu's engineering section that were left behind, as the carrier was abandoned. They took to a lifeboat before the ship sank on June 5th 1942 and spent two weeks at sea until rescued by the US Navy. Later sent to
Pearl Harbor as POWs.