A team led by billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen says it found the wreck of the USS Lexington, an aircraft carrier that was sunk in 1942’s Battle of the Coral Sea with the loss of more ...

Essex-Class (CV-16) USS Lexington: WWII Aircraft Carrier Hero Now a Floating Museum For more than three decades, the city of Corpus Christi, Texas, has been home to one the longest serving Essex ...

The USS Lexington used about seven tanks of fuel despite serving in active duty longer than any other aircraft carrier in the history of naval aviation. The 880-foot long ship had the capacity to ...

Between 1941 and 1945, the United States Navy commissioned several classes of aircraft carriers, namely the Lexington, Ranger, Wasp, Yorktown, and Essex classes, which became instrumental in ...

“We always thought, we need to tell the story about women of the Navy, and the reason is because the USS Lexington is the first aircraft carrier in the Navy that had women serving aboard as part ...

The USS Lexington, known as “Lady Lex,” was a powerful aircraft carrier that played a pivotal role in turning the tide against the Japanese Empire during World War II.

Between 1941 and 1945, the United States Navy commissioned several classes of aircraft carriers, namely the Yorktown, Lexington, Enterprise, and Essex classes, which became instrumental in ...

Soon after, the Lexington would be avenged as a new aircraft carrier making a comeback in 1943. She was commissioned after the renaming of the USS Cabot. The Japanese called her the “Blue Ghost ...

The aircraft carriers employed by the United States Navy are truly works of engineering art. They're not just giant boats, they're entire traveling naval bases that are large enough to house ...

Eight of the current 11 operational aircraft carriers bear the names ... "The Blue Ghost" (USS Lexington (CV 16)) and "The Galloping Ghost of the Oahu Coast" (USS Enterprise (CV 6)) derived ...