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Photo #: 80-G-312018-A Antenna for CXAM radar Mounted on the foretop of USS Yorktown (CV-5). Photographed during the Battle of Midway, 4 June 1942. The antenna and its supporting yoke are somewhat obscured by the upper structure of the foretop, the topmast, the mast's yard (with a ladder hanging from it and signal balls on two of its halliards) and the U.S. ensign flying from the mast. This image is cropped from Photo # 80-G-312018. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. Online Image: 68KB; 650 x 675 pixels

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Image posted 14 June 2008