Keywords: USS Lexington gun gallery bomb damage.jpg en Damage in the port forward 5-inch gun gallery of USS Lexington CV-2 from a Japanese bomb that hit near the gallery's after end during the Battle of the Coral Sea 8 May 1942 The ship's four 5 /25 gun is in the left center of the view which looks forward Staining on the photographic image is possibly due to water damage received when the photographer abandoned ship Official U S Navy Photograph now in the collections of the National Archives 80-G-16803 http //www navsource org/archives/02/020232 jpg http //www navsource org/archives/02/02a htm NavSource Author 1942-05-08 Official US Navy photograph PD-USGov-Military-Navy USS Lexington CV-2 |