[Photo] Burned out nose section of a PBY-3 Catalina destroyed on 7 Dec 1942 at Midway by shelling from Japanese destroyers Ushio and Sazanami covering the retirement of the Pearl Harbor strike force.

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Burned out nose section of a PBY-3 Catalina destroyed on 7 Dec 1942 at Midway by shelling from Japanese destroyers Ushio and Sazanami covering the retirement of the Pearl Harbor strike force. ww2dbase

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ww2dbaseUnited States Navy

Identification Code

80-G-2299

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David Stubblebine

Added Date

1 Jan 2006

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Public Domain. According to the United States copyright law (United States Code, Title 17, Chapter 1, Section 105), in part, "[c]opyright protection under this title is not available for any work of the United States Government".

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Modern Day Location

WW2-Era Place Name	Sand Island, Midway, US Pacific Islands
Lat/Long	28.2065, -177.3734

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