It was the end of January 1847. The USS Lexington, a sloop of war, lay at anchor in Monterey Bay. The small transport had ...
The USS Lexington served as the flagship of Task ... the Second World War and by some accounts the great naval battle in history, the aircraft operating from the carrier were solely responsible ...
The USS Lexington was found 3km (2 miles) underwater in the Coral Sea, about 800km off Australia's east coast. The ship was lost in the Battle of the Coral Sea, fought with Japan from 4-8 May 1942.
USS Lexington (CV-16). It is a mortal sin that a great piece of American history, like the USS Texas, would struggle to find ...
Following its commission in 1943, the USS Lexington was a combat aircraft carrier with the 5th Fleet at Pearl Harbor during World War II. Now, the retired ship rests in Corpus Christi Bay and ...