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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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    recently-lost USS Lexington (CV-2), becoming the sixth U.S. Navy ship to bear the name in honor of the Battle of Lexington. Lexington was commissioned...
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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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    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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  • CV-2 may refer to: USS Lexington (CV-2), a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that served after World War I and during World War II, until she was sunk in the...
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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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    When the USS Lexington (CV-2) was damaged in battle on May 8, 1942, he distinguished himself by rescuing three men. The USS Lexington (CV-2) was an American...
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    battleship USS Massachusetts (BB-59), and the cruisers USS Springfield (CL-66) and USS Salem (CA-139) as well as the Navy's first carrier USS Lexington (CV-2) and...
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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 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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    TBD-1 BuNo 0377 Ex-VT-2 / USS Lexington (CV-2) "6-T-7", Pacific Ocean, Mission Beach, California. Wreck of the USS Lexington (CV-2) On 4 March 2018, Paul...
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    naval aviator in the United States Navy flying from the USS Langley (CV-1) and USS Lexington (CV-2). These were the first two aircraft carriers of the U...
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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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  • Roman laws for specific laws beginning with lex, such as lex Vatinia USS Lexington (CV-2), a United States Navy aircraft carrier Lex (dog) (1999–2012), the...
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    detector, to collect data on nuclear tests. 2 Lexington-class (c. 1921 – 1925) aircraft carriers: Lexington, Saratoga Mk 9 guns in four 190-ton twin turrets...
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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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    in 1937, and of Naval Air Station San Diego to 1938. He commanded USS Lexington (CV-2) from 1940 until her loss in the Battle of the Coral Sea. Captain...
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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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  • family!". "Zoomshare: Home". zoomshare.com. Retrieved 2024-04-04. "USS Lexington Museum | CV-16 | Corpus Christi, TX". 2020-08-10. Retrieved 2024-04-04. http://www...
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    up of the aircraft carrier USS Lexington (CV-2) and the heavy cruisers USS Indianapolis (CA-35), USS Chicago (CA-29), and USS Portland (CA-33). On 14 December...
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    control conference in history. The aircraft carriers USS Saratoga (CV-3) and USS Lexington (CV-2) were built on the hulls of partially built battle cruisers...
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  • carrier USS Saratoga (CV-3), a Lexington-class aircraft carrier commissioned in 1927; active in World War II; was sunk by atomic bomb test in 1946 USS Saratoga (CV-60)...
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  • of the United States Naval Academy. Served in U.S. Navy aboard USS Lexington (CV-2), USS Roper (DD-147), Philadelphia Navy Yard (Stranger in a Strange...
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  • slipway and two were converted into the aircraft carriers Lexington (CV-2) and Saratoga (CV-3). The treaty forestalled any further development of battlecruisers...
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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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    battlecruiser hulls were reordered as the Lexington-class aircraft carriers Lexington (CV-2) and Saratoga (CV-3) under the terms of the Treaty, while the...
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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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  • in 1936 and served on the USS Lexington (CV-2), an aircraft carrier. He was stationed at Pearl Harbor Naval Base on board USS Tennessee (BB-43) as Chief...
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  • (AV, CV, CVL and CVA), the Navy's first carrier, USS Langley (CV-1), was converted from a collier, while carriers USS Lexington (CV-2) and USS Saratoga (CV-3)...
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  • the aircraft carrier (CV) from which they operated. VF-3 for example belonged to the Saratoga's Air Group as USS Saratoga was CV 3. When the ship named...
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