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Lexington was combat-bound again on 22 May, sailing via Alameda and Pearl Harbor for San Pedro Bay, Leyte, where she joined Rear Admiral Thomas L. Sprague's task force for the final round of air strikes which battered the Japanese home islands from July-15 August, when the last strike was ordered to jettison its bombs and return to Lexington on ...
The Bataan Death March[ a] was the forcible transfer by the Imperial Japanese Army of 75,000 [ 1] American and Filipino prisoners of war (POW) from the municipalities of Bagac and Mariveles on the Bataan Peninsula to Camp O'Donnell via San Fernando . The transfer began on 9 April 1942 after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines ...
USS Lexington (CV-2), nicknamed "Lady Lex", [1] was the name ship of her class of two aircraft carriers built for the United States Navy during the 1920s. Originally designed as a battlecruiser, she was converted into one of the Navy's first aircraft carriers during construction to comply with the terms of the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922, which essentially terminated all new battleship and ...
The Bataan Death March Memorial Monument, erected in April 2001, is the only monument funded by the U.S. federal government dedicated to the victims of the Bataan Death March during World War II. The memorial was designed and sculpted by Las Cruces artist Kelley Hester and is located in Veterans Park along Roadrunner Parkway in New Mexico. [26]
The Battle of Midway was a major naval battle in the Pacific Theater of World War II that took place 4–7 June 1942, six months after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and one month after the Battle of the Coral Sea. [ 7 ][ 8 ][ 9 ] The U.S. Navy under Admirals Chester W. Nimitz, Frank J. Fletcher, and Raymond A. Spruance defeated an attacking ...
Zuikaku ( Japanese: 瑞鶴, meaning "Auspicious Crane") was the second and last Shōkaku -class aircraft carrier built for the Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) shortly before the beginning of the Pacific War. Zuikaku was one of the most capable Japanese aircraft carriers of the entire war. Her aircraft took part in the attack on Pearl Harbor that ...
Wreck of the USS Lexington (CV-2) On 4 March 2018, Paul G. Allen's R/V Petrel team discovered the wreck of the USS Lexington at 3,000 meters (about two miles) below the surface, resting on the floor of the Coral Sea more than 500 miles off the eastern coast of Australia. [40] Near the wreck were the remains of seven Devastators, as well as an ...
English: View of the flight deck of the U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS Lexington (CV-16) with aircraft of Carrier Air Group 16 (CVG-16) landing, in November 1943. Crewmen in the foreground are sitting on the wing of a Douglas SBD-5 Dauntless of Bombing Squadron 16 (VB-16), as a Grumman F6F-3 Hellcat of Fighting Squadron 16 (VF-16) lands and a Grumman TBF-1 Avenger of Torpedo Squadron 16 (VT-16 ...