Keywords: outdoor monochrome blackandwhite black and white 80-G-7403: Battle of the Coral Sea, May 1942. Destroyers alongside USS Lexington (CV-2) to assist in the carrier's abandonment, after she had been mortally damaged by fires and explosions during the afternoon of 8 May 1942. Photographed from a cruiser (probably USS Minneapolis). Note SOC scouting plane, with a damaged wingtip, on the cruiser's port catapult. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2015/12/27) 80-G-7403: Battle of the Coral Sea, May 1942. Destroyers alongside USS Lexington (CV-2) to assist in the carrier's abandonment, after she had been mortally damaged by fires and explosions during the afternoon of 8 May 1942. Photographed from a cruiser (probably USS Minneapolis). Note SOC scouting plane, with a damaged wingtip, on the cruiser's port catapult. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives. (2015/12/27) |