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LS heavy black air artillery burst from DD, flak. Tracers fired. LS cruiser under way. LS large splash as Japanese plane crashes in sea.
12:47:08 Tracers fill sky as Japanese plane dives in for attack.
12:47:34 F4F fighter planes land on USS Yorktown; one flips over on nose. Hoses on deck, hole in deck. Fires burning.
12:48:37 1.1 battery w/ bodies & debris.
