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    USS Lexington (CV/CVA/CVS/CVT/AVT-16) is an Essex-class aircraft carrier built during World War II for the United States Navy. Originally intended to be...
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  • converted to CV-2 in 1922 USS Lexington (CV-2), a Lexington-class aircraft carrier commissioned in 1927 and sunk in 1942 USS Lexington (CV-16), an Essex-class...
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    Randolph, Cabot). Lexington was originally laid down as Cabot, but was renamed during construction after the previous USS Lexington (CV-2) was lost in the...
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    USS Lexington (CV-2), nicknamed "Lady Lex", was the name ship of her class of two aircraft carriers built for the United States Navy during the 1920s...
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    through the annual NASCAR Salutes Together with Coca-Cola program. The USS Lexington (CV-16) also known as The Blue Ghost made an exhibit about some of the veterans...
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    first carrier USS Lexington (CV-2) and its successor USS Lexington (CV-16). The light cruiser USS San Juan CL-54 was built there as well. Fore River produced...
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    USS Hornet (CV-12) - USS Hornet Museum, Alameda, CA USS Intrepid (CV-11) - Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, New York, NY USS Lexington (CV-16) - USS...
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    USS Hornet (CV-8), the seventh U.S. Navy vessel of that name, was a Yorktown-class aircraft carrier of the United States Navy. During World War II in the...
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  • Group 58: USS Enterprise (CV-6) USS Bunker Hill (CV-17) USS Hornet (CV-12) USS Yorktown (CV-10) USS Lexington (CV-16) USS Monterey (CV-26) USS Belleau Wood...
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    USS Langley (CV-1/AV-3) was the United States Navy's first aircraft carrier, converted in 1920 from the collier USS Jupiter (Navy Fleet Collier No. 3)...
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    USS Yorktown (CV-5) was an aircraft carrier that served in the United States Navy during World War II. Named after the Battle of Yorktown in 1781, she...
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    USS Ranger (CV-4) was an interwar United States Navy aircraft carrier, the only ship of its class. As a Treaty ship, Ranger was the first U.S. vessel to...
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    USS Forrestal (CVA-59) (later CV-59, then AVT-59), was a supercarrier named after the first United States Secretary of Defense James Forrestal. Commissioned...
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    USS Yorktown (CV/CVA/CVS-10) is one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during World War II for the United States Navy. Initially to have been named...
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    Otto C. (2003). "Who's got the conn Nick?". Blue Ghost Memoirs: USS Lexington Cv-16 1943–1945. Turner. p. 49. ISBN 9781563118487. Bowditch, Nathaniel...
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    November 1943 tour on board the USS Lexington (CV-16). Gerald Ford is the jumper on the left of this 1944 photograph on board USS Monterey by Victor Jorgensen...
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    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)...
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  • Foundation. Retrieved 19 September 2016. "USS Lexington CV-16 Aircraft Carrier Museum". USS Lexington CV-16. Retrieved 24 September 2016. "PT-309". HNSA...
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    USS Yorktown (CV-10) in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina USS Intrepid (CV-11) in New York City USS Hornet (CV-12) in Alameda, California USS Lexington (CV-16)...
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    Parthenon, Athens, 1921 "Aircraft of Carrier Air Group 16 return to the USS Lexington (CV-16) during the Gilberts operation, November 1943." Photographed...
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    Citations presented to Destroyer Squadron 23, USS Bunker Hill (CV-17), USS Lexington (CV-16), and to USS Enterprise (CV-6). Those vessels were, at various times...
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    USS Shangri-La (CV/CVA/CVS-38) was one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers completed during or shortly after World War II for the United States Navy. Commissioned...
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    USS Lexington (CV-16) USS Midway Museum; San Diego, California – USS Midway (CV-41) Patriots Point; Charleston, South Carolina – USS Yorktown (CV-10)...
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    USS Ticonderoga (CV-14): V USS Randolph (CV-15): L USS Lexington (CV-16): H USS Wasp (CV-18): X USS Hancock (CV-19): U USS Bennington (CV-20): TT USS Monterey (CVL-26):...
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    National Naval Aviation Museum at Naval Air Station Pensacola. 06694 – USS Lexington (CV-16) museum in Corpus Christi, Texas. It is on loan from National Naval...
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    USS Intrepid (CV/CVA/CVS-11), also known as The Fighting "I", is one of 24 Essex-class aircraft carriers built during World War II for the United States...
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    USS Saratoga (CV-3) was a Lexington-class aircraft carrier built for the United States Navy during the 1920s. Originally designed as a battlecruiser,...
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  • USS Cabot (1775), was a 14-gun brig purchased in 1775 and captured by the British in 1777. USS Cabot (CV-16), was renamed Lexington (CV-16) on 16 June...
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  • Station Pensacola, Florida. 53804 - USS Lexington (CV-16) museum in Corpus Christi, Texas. 53842 - USS Yorktown (CV-10) at the Patriot's Point Naval and...
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    deck edge, in a position relatively far aft. The next three (Shangri-La, Lexington and Bon Homme Richard), which underwent 27C and 125 concurrently, had...
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