Wreckage from the aircraft carrier USS Lexington, sunk by the Japanese during the Battle of the Coral Sea in World War II, has been discovered off the Australian coast. A team of explorers led by ...
During the Battle of the Coral Sea in May 1942, USS Lexington absorbed devastating bomb and torpedo hits from Japanese ...
The week prior to Thanksgiving of 1979, on a gloomy foggy California day, my ship, USS Coral Sea, got underway from our home port of Alameda passing under the Golden Gate Bridge. We were scheduled for ...
-Though they missed that conflict, these massive carriers—the USS Midway, USS Coral Sea, and USS Franklin D. Roosevelt—served for nearly 50 years, their robust decks enabling the transition from ...