Lexington (CV 16) - Naval Cruise Book

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71 at Two Iapanese carriers lie shattered at their moorings in Kure after the Iuly 28111 gfrike. One. upper, left, still smokes: the other is a dead hulk. I

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l1 ,9- The Battleship lse is blow U.S.S. Hancock. , .W WM fo . ,, , 5 X9 X ixs 49 n to glory. This p if ,fx a icture was taken by the

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speciorl edition in two hours, the Chief Petty Officers who donoted their shoes, sweoiters ond coots, ond the numerous men of oll deportments, who contrib- uted to the pilots who tirelessly flew flight ofter flight without corriploint. Similor drops were mode on the 27th, ond for more thon ct week thereofter. Numerous letters hove since been received from liberoted P.O.W.'s expressing their thonks for the greot volume of supplies delivered by Lexington plones. TARAWA TO TOKYO For operotions on the 29th ond 30th of August, Tosk Group 38,l relieved Tosk Group 38.4 in the Tokyo oreo. The Lexington wos given responsibility for on oreo which included the city of Tokyo ond the woters of Tokyo Boy, Lexington plgnes were flown overheod os Genercxl lVlocArthur londed on Waving prisoners crowd their court- yard as Lexington planes revisit cr grateful camp, late in August, 1945. Tokyo lies quiet, September S. 1945. as the Lexington enters TOICYO Bay, while her planes ily over the city. .N-J is X Atsugi airfield ond os the first of our occupotion ttt. forces mode their woy oshore in the vicinity of t'ii Yokosuko. On both doys more supplies were ff 4 dropped to prisoners, 'jg ff'-Q'K4 T A ex Potrols ond prisoners-of-wcir supply-dropping mis- :fi f i, eA 5 if Nl,f.T,T NT sions were flown on the first three doys of Septem- K X 'T ber, the Lexingtons crreo of responsibility now in- W ig., 3 ,'A J T cluding the city of Nogoyo ond oirfields to the A f- f ' lu Sgr' . southeost of thot city. As hod been the cdse in the 4 Q T 'f:f ' . A f f' T y W X X E, fb, '11-'W r .. no .. Q ,gi Q .A,. t 'r.g.-.4 51:-' '. - ' , ' I . ' . 1 T Q -T RH . ff fn? .' -'. - ' ,I 'bds'