Keywords: Coral Sea Lexington survivors.jpg Survivors of USS Lexington CV-2 are pulled aboard a cruiser - probably USS Minneapolis CA-36 - after the carrier was abandoned on the afternoon of 8 May 1942 during the Battle of the Coral Sea Note the man in the lower part of the photo who is using the cruiser's armor belt as a hand hold Official U S Navy photograph http //www history navy mil/photos/images/g00001/g07392 jpg 80-G-7392 now in the collections of the U S National Archives http //www history navy mil/photos/events/wwii-pac/coralsea/cs-5m htm 1942-05-08 USN PD-USGov-Military-Navy Battle of the Coral Sea USS Minneapolis CA-36 |