File:Damaged TBD of VT-5 on USS Yorktown (CV-5) in 1940.jpg

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A U.S. Navy Douglas TBD-1 Devastator torpedo plane (BuNo 0297) of Torpedo Squadron 5 (VT-5) with a wrinkled fuselage, following a landing accident aboard the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-5), 3 September 1940. The after end of the carrier's island is in the background.

This aircraft was ultimately assigned to Torpedo Squadron 8 (VT-8), and was lost in the Battle of Midway on 4 June 1942 as "T-3" (crew: ENS William Robinson Evans, Jr. and Ross Eugene Bibb, Jr. ARM3c).
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Source Official U.S. Navy photo NH 95311 from the U.S. Navy Naval History and Heritage Command
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