The Ship Model Forum

Ran across website today, called the World War II Archives Foundation. Some photos I've seen before, but many I haven't. Here is an interesting shot of Lex on May 8, 1942...looks like it was taken from a photographer from the Yorktown's island:

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"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday." John Wayne

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Looks like it's after she was already down a little by the head but before flight operations resumed. Someone ought to be able to put a time on it to within 15 minutes.

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If an unfriendly power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war.

-- "A Nation at Risk" (1983)