Photo #: 80-G-7407 Battle of the Coral Sea, May 1942 USS Lexington (CV-2) is abandoned, during the afternoon of 8 May 1942. One destroyer is alongside her starboard side, and another is standing off her stern. 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. Online Image: 72KB; 740 x 595 pixels Reproductions of this image may also be available through the National Archives photographic reproduction system. |
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24 April 2000