Keywords: USS Lexington - Gun Gallery.jpg en Damage in the port forward 5-inch gun gallery on USS Lexington CV-2 from a Japanese bomb that struck near the gallery's after end during the Battle of the Coral Sea 8 May 1942 View looks aft with the damaged number four 5 /25 gun in the foreground trained to port and aft The gun crew was wiped-out by the explosion http //www navsource org/archives/02/02a htm Navsource org Official U S Navy Photograph now in the collections of the National Archives 80-G-16807 Author 1942-05-08 PD-USGov-Navy cropped W wolny Naval artillery Battle of the Coral Sea Damaged guns USS Lexington CV-2 |