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| | USN Ships--USS Lexington (CV-2, originally CC-1) |
 | | Lexington was in the Pacific when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor and took part in the U.S. Navy's first wartime operation, the abortive attempt in December 1941 to relieve Wake Island. |
 | | In early May, Lexington returned to the South Pacific in time to join USS Yorktown (CV-5) in successfully countering the Japanese offensive in the Coral Sea. |
 | | For extensive pictoral coverage of Lexington during the Battle of Coral Sea, including views of her underway, Japanese air attacks on her, her damage, abandonment and destruction, as well as photographs taken from her planes as they attacked the Japanese aircraft carrier Shoho, see: Battle of the Coral Sea, 7-8 May 1942. |
| www.history.navy.mil /photos/sh-usn/usnsh-l/cv2.htm (831 words) |
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