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1/1250 CVS-16 USS Lexington Stern
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USS Lexington (CV-16) is one of 24 Essex class fleet carriers built by the US Navy during and immediately after WWII. The ship entered service in February 1943, joining the fleet in the Pacific Theatre for the Marshall Islands, the Philippines, Saipan, Indochina campaigns, with strikes on harbour installations on the Japanese mainland.
At the battle of Leyte Gulf her aircraft assisted in sinking the battleship Musashi, the carriers Chitose, Zuikaku and Zuiho, although the ship was hit by a tokko aircraft towards the end of the battle.
After the war and the obligatory Operation Magic Carpet roll, Lexington was decommissioned for six years before being put in for refit; she was one of the few ships of the class receiving the SCB-27C and SCB-125 refits together.
Recommissioned in 1955, she was deployed in Japan; in 1962, Lexington was reclassified as CVS (anti-submarine warfare carrier) and remained in service until 1969, when reduced to a training carrier for pilots bound for Vietnam.
Lexington was the final Essex class carrier to be in commission, being put out of service in 1991.
Now she resides in Corpus Christi, Texas, as a museum ship.
At the battle of Leyte Gulf her aircraft assisted in sinking the battleship Musashi, the carriers Chitose, Zuikaku and Zuiho, although the ship was hit by a tokko aircraft towards the end of the battle.
After the war and the obligatory Operation Magic Carpet roll, Lexington was decommissioned for six years before being put in for refit; she was one of the few ships of the class receiving the SCB-27C and SCB-125 refits together.
Recommissioned in 1955, she was deployed in Japan; in 1962, Lexington was reclassified as CVS (anti-submarine warfare carrier) and remained in service until 1969, when reduced to a training carrier for pilots bound for Vietnam.
Lexington was the final Essex class carrier to be in commission, being put out of service in 1991.
Now she resides in Corpus Christi, Texas, as a museum ship.
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