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RE: USS Lexington attacked?
Posted by: Michael Lowrey ()
Date: May 02, 2001 11:08AM

<HTML>Frank,

I spot the problem here - I think we were thinking about different ships. There were two U.S. aircraft carriers named Lexington. The first, which was commissioned in 1927 was based in the Pacific and sunk at the Battle of the Coral Sea on May 8, 1942. She would have been in the Pacific through almost all of the period before the U.S.\'s entry into WWII. When I stated that an attack on the Lexington was implausible, this was the ship I was referring to.

A second USS Lexington was commissioned on February 7, 1943 (no bonus points for guessing what sunken earlier ship she was named for...). She was built in Quincy, Mass. and didn\'t arrive at Pearl Harbor until August 9, 1943. This may be the ship you are thining of.</HTML>

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USS Lexington attacked? Frank Blazich 05/01/2001 11:34AM
RE: USS Lexington attacked? Michael Lowrey 05/01/2001 01:07PM
RE: USS Lexington attacked? Frank Blazich 05/02/2001 02:38AM
RE: USS Lexington attacked? Michael Lowrey 05/02/2001 11:08AM
RE: USS Lexington attacked? Rainer Bruns 05/02/2001 12:08PM
RE: USS Lexington attacked? Michael Lowrey 05/02/2001 02:07PM
RE: USS Lexington attacked? Brian Corijn 05/02/2001 08:17PM
D\'OH, it was the USS Yorktown Frank Blazich 05/03/2001 02:32AM


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