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By September, 1943 the LEX had been baptized with fire -during the fight for the Gilbert Islands. Her first commanding officer, Captain 1?lix B. Stump said of this action, I would be interested to know if, in the brilliant records of fighting units of this war, such a record had been equalledf' After the Gilberts and bloody Tarawa, the LEX raided Wake Island and then Mille and Kwajalein in the Marshalls, It was shortly before mid- night, Dermembexr 4, 1943, at 2332 a torpedo dropped from a Japanese Betty 'bomber to hit the LEXING- TON on her starboard side. The LEX was reported lost by Toyko Rose, it was not to be the last time, for Rose reported the LEX as lost four times before the end of the Pacific war and earned the nickname Blue Ghostv for the LEX.
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USS LEXINGTON QCV-161 y 17 February 1943 The fifth LEXINGTON was built by the Bethlehem Steel Company of Quincy, Massachusetts. Her keel was laid July 15, 1941. Assigned the name CABOT, the Secretary of the Navy approved the name LEXINGTON on June 16, 1942 in response to a request from shipyard workers at Bethlehem Steel, Fore River Yard. Ten thousand people turned out to see the new LEXINGTON slide down the ways in September 19425 she was built and launched 14 months, fully one year ahead of schedule. The carrier was commissioned five months later in South Boston Navy Yard, 1943. Dur- ing that spring, Air Group 16 came aboard while she operated in Chesa- peake Bay. Then the LADY I,EX', passed through the Panama Canal and on to destiny in the Pacific. BETHLEHEM STEEL COMPANY SHIPBUILDING DIVISION FORE RIVER YARD QUINCY, MASSACHUSETTS CORDIALLY INVITES YOU TO BE PRESENT AT THE LAUNCHING OF THE U. S. S. LEXINGTON AT I.O0 P.M. E.W.T. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER TWENTY SIX NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FORTY TWO AND AT THE RECEPTION FOR THE SPONSOR AT THE NEIGHBORHOOD CLUB OF QUINCY, 27 GLENDALE ROAD IMMEDIATELY AFTER THE LAUNCHING SPONSOR MRS. THEODORE DOUGLAS ROBINSON THIS CARD WILL ADMIT YOU TO THE YARD THROUGH THE HOWARD STREET GATE TO THE LAUNCHING STAND AND TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD CLUB NO CAMERAS PERMITTED PLEASE REPLY
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