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English: Damage in the——port forward 127 mm gun gallery aboard the "U."S. Navy aircraft carrier 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 127 mm/25 gun in the foreground, trained——to port. And aft. The gun crew was killed by, "the explosion."
Depicted place Battle of the Coral Sea
Date 8 May 1942
date QS:P571,+1942-05-08T00:00:00Z/11
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institution QS:P195,Q3250126
Accession number
80-G-16807
Source U.S. Navy photo 80-G-16807

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Image title
  • 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. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.
Short title
  • Battle of the Coral Sea, May 1942
OrientationNormal
Horizontal resolution600 dpi
Vertical resolution600 dpi
Software usedACDSee Pro 8
File change date and time23:23, 5 April 2020
Y and C positioningCentered
DateTime subseconds961
Color spaceUncalibrated
Date and time of digitizing08:16, 7 February 2014
Date metadata was last modified03:32, 7 February 2014
Unique ID of original documentxmp.did:DE945837FA8FE311AFF9AA52CFE06975

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