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| View of Lexington's flight deck during Battle of Coral Sea, at 1500 on 8 May 1942 | Manila, Philippines during Japanese occupation, 9 May 1942 |
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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 1 | RAF Sergeant-Pilot Smith after returning to USS Wasp upon accidentally losing his drop tank on launch, 9 May 1942; photo 1 side 2 |
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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 1 | RAF Sergeant-Pilot Smith after returning to USS Wasp upon accidentally losing his drop tank on launch, 9 May 1942; photo 2 side 2 |
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| USS Albacore in Measure 9 camouflage, off Groton, Connecticut, United States, 9 May 1942 | 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 | Soviet war-time newspapers, 10 May 1942 |
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| 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 | Japanese-American enlisted man of the US Army returning home to Florin, California, United States to help his mother comply to relocation, 11 May 1942 |
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| LtCdr Franklin Karns preparing to take command of the destroyer USS Bailey upon commissioning at the New York Navy Yard, 11 May 1942. Yard commandant RAdm Edward Marquart is at the microphone. | Air Chief Marshal Charles Burnett and Air Vice Marshal William Bostock, Australia, 12 May 1942 |
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| Air Vice Marshal George Jones, Air Vice-Marshal W. D. Bostock, and Air Chief Marshal Charles Burnett, Australia, 12 May 1942 | Battleship Massachusetts entering Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, United States, 12 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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| Men of US 1st Provisional Marine Battalion arriving at Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, 12 May 1942 | Rhodesian troops of 60th King's Royal Rifle Corps training with 2-inch mortar in North Africa, 12 May 1942, photo 1 of 2 |
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