Black and White Photographs Colorized by WW2DB

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USS Lexington burning as she was being abandoned, 8 May 1942, photo 2 of 2; note USS Chester and other warships nearby	USS Lexington's crewmen sliding down lines into a destroyer as the carrier was being abandoned, 8 May 1942, photo 1 of 2

USS Lexington's crewmen sliding down lines into a destroyer as the carrier was being abandoned, 8 May 1942, photo 2 of 2	View of Lexington's flight deck during Battle of Coral Sea, at 1500 on 8 May 1942

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

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	Battleship Massachusetts entering Boston Harbor, Massachusetts, United States, 12 May 1942

President Manuel Quezon (with family) and President Franklin Roosevelt (with Captain John McCrea), Washington DC, United States, 13 May 1942	Forward main guns of Gleaves-class destroyer USS Aaron Ward in Gravesend Bay, New York Harbor, 15 May 1942. The guns are single-mount 5”/38 caliber dual purpose guns in enclosed turrets. Note the 5” powder canisters alongside.

Hornet in South Pacific, 15 May 1942, a week after the Battle of Coral Sea and the day before she was recalled to Pearl Harbor to prepare for the Battle of Midway.	Submarine Gunnel at sea off Groton, Connecticut, United States, 17 May 1942

Wildcat took off from Enterprise's flight deck, 18 May 1942	President Franklin Roosevelt presenting the Medal of Honor to Brigadier General James Doolittle for Doolittle’s role in leading a bomber attack on Tokyo one month earlier, White House, Washington DC, United States, 19 May 1942.

American soldiers resting during the Bataan death march, May 1942, photo 1 of 3	American soldiers resting during the Bataan death march, May 1942, photo 2 of 3

SOC-3A Seagull aircraft catapulted from escort carrier Long Island, 21 May 1942	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

Enterprise entering Pearl harbor, 26 May 1942, following the Battle of Coral Sea and shortly before the Battle of Midway.	Hornet at Pearl Harbor, 26 May 1942