An Original Second World War Official U S Navy Photograph Of The Uss Lexington The First U S Navy

$250 · Offered by Churchill Book Collector

United States Navy, 1942. Photograph. This is an original Second World War Official U. S. Navy photograph of the aircraft carrier USS Lexington, being abandoned during the afternoon of 8 May 1942 during the Battle of the Coral Sea. In the image sailors slide down ropes on Lexington’s starboard quarter while a destroyer pulls up alongside Lexington to rescue crewmembers. She was the first U.S. Navy aircraft carrier lost in the Second World War.

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