The Australian War Memorial Collection. Test site
CORAL SEA, 1942-05-08. A JAPANESE TORPEDO BOMBER AIRCRAFT JUST ABOVE THE HORIZON CLOSES IN TO ATTACK THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS LEXINGTON. THE WHITE SPRAY TO THE LEFT WAS WHIPPED UP BY ANTI AIRCRAFT CANNON SHELLS HITTING THE WATER AND THE BLACK PUFFS OF SMOKE ARE FROM EXPLODING ANTI AIRCRAFT SHELLS.
Coral Sea, South West Pacific. 1942-05. Smoke billows into the air from the burning Lexington after attacks by Japanese torpedo aircraft. The Battle of the Coral Sea checked the proposed Japanese inva
CORAL SEA. 1942-05-07. SHIPS OF TASK FORCE 17.3 UNDER ATTACK BY JAPANESE TORPEDO BOMBERS DURING THE BATTLE OF THE CORAL SEA. THREE BURSTS OF ANTI AIRCRAFT SHELLS DOT THE SKY AS THE DESTROYER USS WALKE
South-west Pacific Area. C. 1945. A Japanese bomber aircraft (circled, at centre left) hit by the anti-aircraft fire of US warships, trailing flame and smoke just before crashing into the Pacific Ocea
CORAL SEA. 1942-0507. THE JAPANESE AIRCRAFT CARRIER `SHOHO' UNDER ATTACK BY UNITED STATES NAVY AIRCRAFT DURING THE BATTLE OF THE CORAL SEA. THE ATTACK COMMENCED AT 1100, ABANDON SHIP WAS ORDERED AT 11
Recto: left hand side of the watercolour featuring Aircraft carriers with Nakajima B5N Torpedo Bombers; Verso: left hand side of watercolour featuring Nakakima B5N Torpedo Bomber ('Kate' carrier attac
Coral Sea, South West Pacific. 1942-05. Smoke billows across the water in the final destruction of the Japanese carrier Shoho during the Battle of the Coral Sea.
