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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.
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 ...
English: U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher, Commander, Task Force 58, on board his flagship, the aircraft carrier USS Lexington (CV-16), at the time of the Marianas campaign, June 1944. Date June 1944
The Lexington-class battlecruisers were officially the only class of battlecruiser to ever be ordered by the United States Navy. [A 1] While these six vessels were requested in 1911 as a reaction to the building by Japan of the KongÅ class, the potential use for them in the U.S. Navy came from a series of studies by the Naval War College which stretched over several years and predated the ...
Vice Admiral Mitscher aboard his flagship, Lexington, in 1944. Returning to the Central Pacific as commander, Carrier Division 3, Mitscher was given primary responsibility for the development and operations of a newly formed Fast Carrier Task Force, at that time operating as Task Force 58 as part of Admiral Raymond Spruance's Fifth Fleet. To ...
In the Pacific, the Morris participated in the Battle of the Coral Sea, rescuing survivors from the sinking USS Lexington, which earned its commander the Navy Cross. The ship also played a role in ...
The Langley was a converted Proteus-class collier, originally commissioned as USS Jupiter (AC-3). [1] It was soon followed by the other pre-World War II classes: the Lexington class; USS Ranger, the first U.S. purpose-built carrier; theYorktown class, and USS Wasp. [2]
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