RE: Lady Lex Found on the Bottom of The Coral Sea
March 6, 2018 at 9:17 pm
(This post was last modified: March 6, 2018 at 9:18 pm by Thumpalumpacus.)
Read about this today. Good on Allen for funding the nuts and bolts of historical work.
I'm pretty sure it was a torpedo which sprung Lexington's avgas storage, but the ship flew off and landed planes long after that hit, and several others. I think it was more a matter of damage control at that stage of the war being pretty primitive and unexplored, rather than armor being ineffective. The tank was sprung by shock, not penetration.
I'm pretty sure it was a torpedo which sprung Lexington's avgas storage, but the ship flew off and landed planes long after that hit, and several others. I think it was more a matter of damage control at that stage of the war being pretty primitive and unexplored, rather than armor being ineffective. The tank was sprung by shock, not penetration.
