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under heavy attack from japanese torpedo planes. As reported in Tarawa to Tokyo: L'At 7:07 p.m. our lookouts reported sighting ten twin-engine planes dead ahead and closing fast. When the Lexington opened fire with automatic batteries eight cFrances' were plainly visible on both port and starboard bows. The ship put up a volume of fire so great as at times to black the attackers from view, and brought five crashing into the water around the ship in flames. Two torpedoes, however, were launched at the ship. Captain Litch daringly maneuvered her between them, and they passed the length of the ship close aboard on either side. Simultaneously, one plane, flaming and out of control, flew the entire length of the flight deck, so close as to scorch the faces of those topside, and crashed off the port quarter. In this swift encounter, gunners of the Lexington displayed the highest degree of cour- age and coolness. They destroyed five of the at- A Grumman F617 Hellcat turns up before a deck-launch lCZk6-Off Tlzesingle seaterfghter has less than fonrhundred feet of flight deck in fiont of her. tacking planes without assistance from other ves- sels. . .and with assistance from screeningvessels destroyed two moref' Tokyo Rose had her usual words to say in describing the engagement: One U. S. carrier sunk - Lexington ! The enemy's carrier force was reportedly mov- ing towards the Marianas to attack our landing forces there, and on june 18 Task Force 58 steamed westward to intercept them and thus protect Saipan. The aircraft from the opposing navies tangled the next morning to open the Battle of the Philippine Sea. All day long waves
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QR ,-.Q , . ,Q X 7 ki X.. .fri 5 . X --QI! ,, ,ls One of Lexingtorfs photo reconnais- sance planes tooh thephoto, at left, at an anchorage somewhere in the Paczfcn on May 13, 1944. Numerous destroy- ers anct a North Carolina class battle- shzp can he seen in the anchorage. Saipan, in the Marz'anas Group, was next. Below, afapanese torpedo plane crashes close aboara' Lexingtorfs fan- tait during a nzght attach on Task Group 58.3 on func Ii 1944.
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