Lexington (CV 16) - Naval Cruise Book

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HU OR ROLL X Nx Q IOHN HENRY CLIFFORD WILLIAM ELLISON CLINGERMAN PHILIP C. COLEMAN RICHARD EDWARD COOK LANE DOUGLAS COSS STERLING ROBERT CRAMER IAMES FOSTER CROWELL IOHN FRANCIS CULLEN MYRAN PEARL DEAN RONALD D. DEMOSI REAL ELZEAR DU BOIS FRANCIS EUGENE FOSTER EUGENE IOSEPH GILBERT. IR. WILLARD H. GRIEBEL EDWARD HANTON CHARLES BERNARD HOLT WILLIAM ALFRED HOURICAN ARTHUR CHESTER HUNTON WALTER WILLIAM IRVIN. IR. WALTER IOHN KALESKY THEODORE N. KIPP LEE ROBERT KLEMCHE IRVING KLIEN RICHARD EUGENE KLUVER EDWARD I. KRAGE IOHN HENRY LIBOUREL IAMES IOSEPH LILES VICTOR THOMAS LIUZZI. IR. IAMES HERBERT LOCKHART THEODORE WESTLEY LONG ROBERT MARIE MAGGI FRANCIS K. MC CABE GEORGE HORNER MELVILLE. IR. CARL EDWARD MERRITT EDWARD EMIL MIKITY VVILLIAM MARION MILLER DONALD ENOS MITCHELL WILLIAM MITCHELL SAM HARRIS MOATES WENDALL THURMAN MOFFITT SERGEANT A. NELSON IOHN ALDWELL NISBET ROBERT BRUCE PARKER KIMSEY' ARLAND PATTERSON ZIEGLER F. PIERCEFIELD ALBERT C. PION LAWRENCE MICHAEL PRENDERGAST IAMES R. REED TOMMY ALLAN SAMPLES WARD ELSWORTH SEYMOUR WILLIAM TRABUE SIMS LEONARD EDXVARD SMIGIELSKI' CORNELUS RAY SOPER MARCUS A. SPANN ERWIN VVARREN STANTON TRUMAN CARL STEWART. IR. THOMAS B. STICKNEY CHARLES WILLIAM TAYLOR RICHARD CARROLL THORN IOHN EDWARD WASHKUHN IOSEPH WASSUM fx!! I'

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E Il WE HAVE JUST EMERGED FROM A GREAT WAR. FOUGHT TO GUARANTEE OUR OWN INDIVIDUAL FREEDOMS AND TO GRANT AN OPPORTUNITY FOR 'ALL PEOPLES OF THE WORLD TO ACHIEVE HUMAN DIGNITY. WITH THIS GREAT VICTORY OVER THE FASCIST AND NAZI TYRANNIES, THE DEMOCRACIES OF THE WORLD HAVE REPUDIATED METHODS OF FORCE. AGGRES- SION. AND OPPRESSION AS STEPS TO WORLD POWER. THE FREEDOM LOVING PEOPLES OF THE WORLD HAVE., IN SOLEMN UNITY AND WITH TRAGIC SACRIFICE. DEFEATED GERMANY. ITALY AND JAPAN IN ORDER THAT OUR PROGRESS TOWARD A FREE WORLD. A TRUE BROTHERHOOD OF NATIONS MIGHT CONTINUE. OUT OF THE RUBBLE AND RUIN OF WORLD WAR II A NEW SPIRIT OF PROGRESS AND FREEDOM MUST EMERGE. WE MUST NEVER FORGET THE GREAT SACRIFICE JUST MADE BY THE PEOPLE OF AMERICA, GREAT BRITAIN AND THE SOVIET UNION. WE MUST ACHIEVE A GREAT NATIONAL STRENGTH. BOTH SPIRITUAL AND MATERIAL, AND FIRMLY RESOLVE TO DE- FEND OUR LIBERTIES WHEREVER AND WHENEVER THEY ARE THREATENED. V, WE OFF THE LEXINGTON ARE PROUD OF THE PART OUR SHIP HAS PLAYED IN HELPING TO SECURE THE RIGHTS OF MAN. THIS BOOK WAS ASSEMBLED TO COMMEMORATE THE EPIC STRUGGLE OF OUR CARRIER AGAINST THE LAND. SEA AND AIR FORCES OF THE JAPANESE EMPIRE.