I can't imagine what the sailors aboard the Yorktown were going thru watching their mates fate. How many going down, how many on the surface, how many will we miss, how many will watch as we sail away.
Line of 500-lbs. bombs jiggling along on overhead conveyor hooks as a worker nonchalantly goes about his duties in room below at the A. O. Smith bomb plant in Milwaukee, WI, US
Here's one from Yugoslav front... Josip Broz Tito after being wounded on 9th of June 1943,during Battle of Sutjeska. Man standing behind him is Ivan Ribar. Tito was the only supreme commander of any army wounded on the battlefield in the WW2. (As any former schoolboy from former Yugoslavia would tell you.)
USS ASTORIA CA-34 as seen from AUSTRALIA in Savo Sound on 8 August 1942. Note that her SOC floatplanes are positioned on her catapults. This is the last known photograph of ASTORIA CA-34.
HMS HOOD going into action against the German battleship BISMARCK and battlecruiser Prinz Eugen, 24 May 1941. This image taken from HMS PRINCE OF WALES was the last photo ever taken of HMS HOOD.