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| Damage to Lexington port side number six 5-in gun by dive bomb, Battle of Coral Sea, 8 May 1942, photo 2 of 2; note TBD-1 Devastator bomber on deck and F4F-3 Wildcat fighter approaching to land | Destroyers evacuating Lexington's crew, 8 May 1942, filmed by crew of cruiser Minneapolis, photo 1 of 2; note SOC Seagull aircraft onboard Minneapolis |
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| Destroyers evacuating Lexington's crew, 8 May 1942, filmed by crew of cruiser Minneapolis, photo 2 of 2; note SOC Seagull aircraft onboard Minneapolis | Lexington during Battle of Coral Sea as seen from Yorktown, early morning of 8 May 1942 |
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| View of Lexington's flight deck during Battle of Coral Sea, at 1500 on 8 May 1942 | RAF Sergeant-Pilot Smith after returning to USS Wasp upon accidentally losing his drop tank on launch, 9 May 1942; photo 1 side 1 |
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| RAF Sergeant-Pilot Smith after returning to USS Wasp upon accidentally losing his drop tank on launch, 9 May 1942; photo 1 side 2 | RAF Sergeant-Pilot Smith after returning to USS Wasp upon accidentally losing his drop tank on launch, 9 May 1942; photo 2 side 1 |
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| RAF Sergeant-Pilot Smith after returning to USS Wasp upon accidentally losing his drop tank on launch, 9 May 1942; photo 2 side 2 | Grumman Martlet of 888 Squadron of British Fleet Air Arm taxiing on HMS Formidable after landing, circa 24 Apr-10 May 1942; HMS Warspite and AMC Alaunia in background |
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| SOC-3A Seagull aircraft of VGS-1 parked on the flight deck of escort carrier Long Island, 10 May 1942 | B-26 Marauder with the 73rd Bomb Squadron armed with a Mark XIII aerial torpedo at Fort Randall Army Airfield, Cold Bay, Alaska, 11 May 1942 |
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| F4F-3 Wildcats of Fighting Squadron 6 get ready for launch from USS Enterprise, May 12 1942 while on their way toward the Battle of the Coral Sea (which was over before Enterprise could get there). | Hurricane fighters of British No. 237 (Rhodesian) Squadron RAF in the Middle East, 12 May 1942 |
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| TBD Devastator torpedo bomber on the flight deck of USS Hornet, circa 15 May 1942 | Wildcat took off from Enterprise's flight deck, 18 May 1942 |
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| SOC-3A Seagull aircraft catapulted from escort carrier Long Island, 21 May 1942 | AVG squadron flight leader Robert 'R. T.' Smith standing next to his P-40 Warhawk fighter, Kunming, China, 23 May 1942; note Nationalist Chinese emblem on cap and 'Flying Tigers' emblem on aircraft |
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| US Navy pilot Lieutenant Commander Lance E. Massey of Torpedo Squadron 3 in his TBD-1 Devastator aircraft, Naval Air Station Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, 24 May 1942 | Vincennes at Pearl Harbor, preparing to depart for Battle of Midway, 26-28 May 1942; note SOC floatplane in foreground |
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