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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.
Naval History and Heritage Command photograph, NH 82117. USS Lexington (CV-2) was commissioned on 14 December 1927 with Captain Albert W. Marshall in command. The ship was originally to be...
USS Lexington (CV-2) in March 1928, during a nine-day scheduled visit to deliver aircraft to NAS Pensacola, Florida. The ship anchored eight miles out in the Gulf of Mexico because she could not enter Pensacola Bay. Lexington delivered seven T3M-1 bombers and six F6C-4 Curtiss Hawk fighters.
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).
USS Lexington (CV-2), one of the U.S. Navy's first two aircraft carriers, was commissioned in December 1927 at Quincy, Massachusetts. Operating mainly in the Pacific, she took...
USS Lexington (CV-2) was a US Navy aircraft carrier that saw service during World War II and was lost at the Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942.
On 16 February, the force headed for an attack on Rabaul, New Britain, scheduled for 21 February; while approaching the day previous, Lexington was attacked by two waves of enemy aircraft, nine...