Lexington (CVT 16) - Naval Cruise Book

 - Class of 1972

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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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