The Loss of Strategic Aircraft and USS Lexington at Coral Sea | Battle Stars

In this episode of Battle Stars, aircraft losses during the Battle of the Coral Sea. In early 1942 - were the planes Lexington sank with more important than the ship herself?

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Credits: US National Archives, US Naval Institute, Naval History & Heritage Command

Sources:
1. John B. Lundstrom, The First South Pacific Campaign: Pacific Fleet Strategy, December 1941—June 1942 (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1976; first paperback, 2014) and The First Team: Pacific Naval Air Combat from Pearl Harbor to Midway (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1984; reprinted 1990).
2. Norman Polmar, Aircraft Carriers: A History of Carrier Aviation and Its Influence on World Events, Vol. 1, 1909-1945 (Washington, DC: Potomac Books, Inc., 2006).
3. Samuel Eliot Morison, History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Vol. IV, Coral Sea, Midway and Submarine Actions, May 1942—August 1942 (Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1949; reprinted Naval Institute Press, 2010).