During the Battle of the Coral Sea the Japanese navy sank USS Lexington (CV-2), USS Sims (DD-409), and USS Neosho (AO-23), and damaged the USS Yorktown. The Japanese lost one light carrier ...

Silence, darkness and cold. Those were the only things surrounding the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Lexington (CV-2) since she plummeted to her deep-sea grave on the sea floor two miles below ...

When an expedition funded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen found the remains of the aircraft carrier USS Lexington CV-2 at the bottom of the Coral Sea last month, Cecil Wiswell couldn’t look ...

When the Fore River Shipyard in Quincy, Massachusetts heard of the sinking of the USS Lexington CV-2, they sent a telegram to Navy Secretary Frank Knox, urging him to name the carrier the ...

the iconic CV 2 “Lady Lex” Essex Class aircraft carrier. It was out on maneuvers on another historic day in our nation’s history: December 7, 1941. The USS Lexington dodged the attack on ...

The USS Lexington (CV-16), an Essex-class carrier renamed after the lost CV-2, earned 11 battle stars in major Pacific battles like Tarawa and the Philippine Sea. -Another Essex-class carrier ...

However, the name was changed after the May 1942 sinking of the USS Lexington (CV-2) at the Battle of the Coral Sea. Following CV-2’s sinking, workers at the Fore River Shipyard submitted a ...

The USS Lexington (CV-2) was recently found in the waters of the Coral Sea just 500 miles off the eastern coast of Australia. The aircraft carrier was scuttled following the Battle of Coral Sea in ...

Initially named Cabot, it was renamed to honor the sunk USS Lexington (CV-2). Engaging in pivotal battles across the Pacific, from Tarawa and Wake Island raids to the decisive Battle of Leyte Gulf ...