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USS Lexington (CV-2), nicknamed "Lady Lex", [1] was the name ship of her class of two aircraft carriers built for the United States Navy during the 1920s. Originally designed as a Lexington-class battlecruiser, she was converted into one of the Navy's first aircraft carriers during construction to comply with the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922, which essentially terminated all ...
1 July 1942 Became Lexington Air Group's VF squadron upon Lexington Air Group's establishment on 1 July 1938. Lexington Air Group disestablished 8 May 1942 when USS Lexington was sunk VF-3 (1937-43) (second use) F2F F4F: Combat Squadron 4: 23 Sep 1921-1 Jul 1922 VF-2(1st): 1 Jul 1922-19 Mar 1923 VF-2B(1st): 19 Mar 1923-1 Jan 1927
6 November 1942 Redesignated VT-2 as Lexington's (CV 2) VT squadron (became Lexington Air Group's VT squadron upon the group's establishment on 1 Jul 1938). Disestablished with the disestablishment Lexington Air Group after USS Lexington was sunk VT-3: Dragons T4M, TG TBD TBF, TBM: VT-2(1st): 1925-1 Jul 1927 VT-2B: 1 Jul 1927- 1 Jul 1937
Lexington in her original configuration, November 1943. The ship was laid down as Cabot on 15 July 1941 by Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts.In May 1942, USS Lexington (CV-2), which had been built in the same shipyard two decades earlier, was sunk at the Battle of the Coral Sea.
Lexington ' s crew began abandoning ship at 17:07. After the carrier's survivors were rescued, including Admiral Fitch and the ship's captain, Frederick C. Sherman , at 19:15 the destroyer Phelps fired five torpedoes into the burning ship, which sank in 2,400 fathoms at 19:52 ( 15°15′S 155°35′E / 15.250°S 155.583°E / -15.250 ...
During World War II, Task Force 11 was a United States Navy aircraft carrier task force in the Pacific theater.After the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941, Destroyer Squadron 1 was attached to the task force, which was under the command of Vice Admiral Wilson Brown, made up of the aircraft carrier USS Lexington (CV-2) and the heavy cruisers USS Indianapolis (CA-35), USS Chicago (CA-29 ...
The Lexington-class aircraft carriers were a pair of aircraft carriers built for the United States Navy (USN) during the 1920s, the USS Lexington (CV-2) and USS Saratoga (CV-3). The ships were built on hulls originally laid down as battlecruisers after World War I , but under the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922, all U.S. battleship and ...
Fighting Squadron 6 or VF-6 was an aviation unit of the United States Navy.Originally established as Combat Squadron 4 on 23 September 1921, it was redesignated VF-2 on 1 July 1922, redesignated VF-2B on 19 March 1923, redesignated VF-6B on 1 January 1927, redesignated VF-6 on 1 July 1927, redesignated VB-2B on 1 July 1928, redesignated VF-6B on 1 July 1930, redesignated VF-3 on 1 July 1937 ...