A gunner fires .30 caliber machine gun of a SBD on a carrier as other crewmen watch.The yellow around the American roundel indicates this SBD was in the Mediterranean theater.(rudeerude)

Mediterranean SBD

June 1942: The USS Lexington, U.S. Navy aircraft carrier, explodes after being bombed by Japanese planes in the Battle of the Coral Sea in the South Pacific during World War II.

Sinking of the USS Lexington

Three members stand by their squadron scoreboard at advanced base in Pacific.(rudeerude)