USS Enterprise CV-6
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Letter from ENS Art Burke, 8 June 1942

Then-Ensign Art Burke's letter to his family, dated 8 June 1942, two days after the Battle of Midway. See the transcribed letter for his recollection of the censored sections.

Letter reprinted with kind permission of CDR Art Burke (U.S.N. Ret.).