Title: Shokaku, April, 1942 Description: Turning in a giant "S," the Japanese heavy carrier Shokaku, desperately attempts to avoid bombs being dropped by planes from the USS Lexington (CV-2) and the USS Yorktown (CV-5) on the first day of the Battle of the Coral Sea, spray from the near misses of the bombs engulfing the Shokaku, which was badly damaged in the attack; this naval battle was profiled in the 1959 film The Battle of the Coral Sea; Date: April 7, 1942 Category: World War II Keywords: aviation, battles, dive bombers, fires, Japanese aircraft carriers, sea battles, Second World War, smoke, U.S. aircraft carriers, U.S. Navy, World War II, WWII Orientation: Portrait Dimensions: 1170 x 1463 (1.71 MPixels) (1.25) Print Size: 9.9 x 12.4 cm; 3.9 x 4.9 inches File Size: 4.90 MB (5,141,212 Bytes) Resolution: 300 x 300 dpi Color Depth: 16.7 million (24 BitsPerPixel) Compression: None Image Number: 0000010125 Source: Jay Robert Nash Collection
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