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“QUEEN Of The FLAT-TOPS” Aboard the aircraft carrier USS
Lexington in the famous Battle of the Coral Sea. - By Stanley Johnson.
Commissioned in 1927, and nicknamed the "Gray Lady" or "Lady Lex," the USS
Lexington (CV-2) was not at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Instead she was
busy fairing aircraft to Midway Island, thus avoiding attack and any of that action. In
May of 1942, Lexington fought the Japanese in the Battle of the Coral Sea. On May
8, 1942 Japanese aircraft struck the carrier with bombs and torpedoes. Heavily
damaged and overcome by fires, the doomed vessel had to be sunk by a U.S.
destroyer to avoid capture by the Japanese. Lexington was the first American flat-
top lost in World War II. Paperback edition, 234 pages, 11 black and white
photos, 2 maps, no index.
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