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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

<p><b>Here’s What You Need To Remember:&nbsp;</b>On March 4, 2018, an expedition funded by philanthropist Paul Allen discovered the shattered remnants of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An exciting announcement regarding USS Lexington (CV-2)! Though Lexington was lost in the Battle of the Coral Sea, the valiant efforts of her men crippled IJN carriers Shōkaku and Zuikaku so that ...

BOTTOM: The USS Lexington aircraft carrier arrives in Port Aransas on May 2, 1963. Four tugboats helped ... He agreed and the USS Lexington CV-16 was commissioned the following year on Feb.

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 ...