Keywords: USS Lexington flightdeck bomb hit damage.jpg en Flight deck damage on USS Lexington CV-2 from a Japanese bomb that hit near the after end of the port forward 5-inch gun gallery during the Battle of the Coral Sea 8 May 1942 This hit was evaluated as being from a relatively small bomb instantaneously fuzed Photographed from the carrier's island with the flight deck palisade at right and the port forward corner of the forward aircraft elevator in the lower left Official U S Navy Photograph now in the collections of the National Archives 80-G-16809 http //www navsource org/archives/02/020231 jpg http //www navsource org/archives/02/02a htm NavSource Author 1942-05-08 Official US Navy photograph PD-USGov-Military-Navy USS Lexington CV-2 |