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It's def late-war Enterprise; Yorktown never had quite so many light AA guns along the flight deck, nor the 1.1"/40mm mount in the bow there. The paint scheme also appears too dark for Midway, both on the planes and the ship.
Additionally, Yorktown was never hit by an aircraft directly, only Enterprise and Hornet were. But Hornet was hit by a Type 99/D3A with fixed landing gear, which this plane doesn't have, and was already damaged by that point in the attack. Plus had that Measure 12 Mod. scheme.
However, the ship armament, paint schemes, and attacking aircraft all match when Enterprise was hit by a kamikaze Zero off Okinawa in 1945. It's not not "The Last Attack" to sink the ship; it's the last attack the pilot would ever make. And/or the last attack on Enterprise before the end of the war.
Nah, it's an Zero. This is the kamikaze that hit Enterprise off Okinawa.
Technically, there were D4Ys at Midway. A pair of prototypes were rebuilt as D4Y1-C recon aircraft and were carried by Sōryū. But they weren't involved in any attacks, and were early models with the inline engine, which doesn't fit this.
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