File:SBD-3 VS-5 on USS Yorktown Midway.jpg

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Description U.S. Navy Ensign Leif Larsen and rear gunner Radioman John F. Gardener of scouting squadron VS-5 (temporarily redesignated VB-5) in their Douglas SBD-3 Dauntless aboard the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-5) during the Battle of Midway, in the late morning of 4 June 1942. This plane was not one of ten "VS"-5 planes launched on a scouting mission shortly before noon on 4 June. Another of the squadron's SBDs succeeded in locating the Japanese carrier Hiryu, the only Japanese aircraft carrier of the Midway striking force that was still operational. The next plane, at right, is "VS"-5's number 4, which did fly the scouting mission, piloted by Lieutenant John Nielsen.
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Source U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No. 1996.253.607 [1]; Naval History and Heritage Command photo 80-G-312000
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