USS Lexington found
 

http://www.news.com.au/technology/sc...5a12cd1782d2f1

Who flew F-5?

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It is remarkable how well the colors on the F4F are preserved.

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Can an Admin transfer to the WW2 General forum please. Sorry about that.

USS Lexington found
 

Hello

Amazing photographs and I am surprised at how well the camouflage and markings have survived on the Wildcat and Devastators... Hopefully this ship and her lost crew will be respected unlike what has happened to many others.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng...ww2-shipwrecks

Horrido!

Leo

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Beside the Japanese 'kill' mark on the Wildcat there is a red mark (looks like a bomb). Anyone know what it represents?

USS Lexington Discovered! Awesome Photos!!
 

https://www.paulallen.com/uss-lexing...ted-rv-petrel/

https://arstechnica.com/information-...-in-coral-sea/

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Gentlemen,

The USS Yorktown (CV-5) was found. The USS Lexingtion (CV-2) is found. Now if only the USS Wasp (CV-7) the USS Hornet (CV-8)and the USS Princeton (CVL-23) could be located.

Edward L. Hsiao

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Lt. Noel Gayler
http://warbirdinformationexchange.or...hp?f=3&t=66291

USS Lexington found
 

Hello

If indeed this aircraft was that flown by Gayler (and all the evidence seems to indicate it was) then possibly the small red bomb represents the attacks by his division [first section: Lieutenant Noel Gayler and Ensign Dale Peterson; second section: Lieutenant Albert Vorse and Lieutenant (junior grade) Robert Morgan] during the raid on Lae on 10 March 1942. The four pilots of VF-3 strafed and bombed four 8-cm high-angle antiaircraft guns, went on to strafe and drop 30-lbs fragmentation bombs on buildings near the airfield and later strafed the light cruiser Yubari, a destroyer and an auxiliary minesweeper in the harbor. They reported fires on the latter two vessels. This information is taken from The First Team: Pacific Naval Air Combat from Pearl Harbor to Midway by Lundstrom.

Horrido!

Leo

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You guys didn't like my post announcing the same thing, with photos, the day before?

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Bronc

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Thanks Revi and Leo.

Your post was a few days late Bronc.

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LOL! Thanks. I was wondering?!?

Bronc

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Probably Noel Gayler's plane when it was in VF-3, before it and 18 others were transferred over to VF-2 to give that squadron a total of 21. In the VF-2 tactical organization drawn up before the battle, F-5 was assigned to Albert Vorse. Was it the same F-5? No one left who might know. Did Gayler fly F-5 at Coral Sea? Same answer. When time came to launch, one got into the plane parked where one was in the launch sequence, regardless of side number . . . no one stood there and complained "that's not my plane". You only have to look at Midway to see where but 4 of the 24 VF-3 pilots in the air at any point actually flew the plane to which they were assigned in the tactical organization of 29 May 42. One should not mistake an on paper assignment for actual employment. The folks in the Air Department pushing planes around a flight deck in the dark in preparation for a launch really did not give a hoot which plane was assigned to what pilot, even if they knew. All they cared about was something like " 9 VS go here, 18 VB go next here, 12 VF go next here and 9 VT go here " side numbers were not particularly their problem. Classic example . . . Jimmie Thach's assigned plane at Midway, from the 29 May tactical organization memo was F1 . . . which plane did he fly in the morning VT escort? Surprise, it was F23 . . . assigned to Bill Woollen, who ended flying F2 which was assigned to RAM Dibb, Thach's wingman, who actually flew Harry Gibb's F20, and so on.