File:Makin Kawanishi burning February 1942.jpg

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English: Smoke rises from two Imperial Japanese Navy Kawanishi flying boats torched off of Makin Island by dive bombers from USS Yorktown (CV-5) of VS-5 during the Marshall-Gilberts raids in February 1942.
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Source Scanned from book: Cressman, Robert (2004), That Gallant Ship USS Yorktown (CV-5), Pictorial Histories Publishing Company, p. 62
Author Photographer's Mate 2nd Class J. V. Pflaum
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